All videos and photos provided by our guides, Lviv locals who have defended Ukraine against russian invaders. Now they are recovering from physical injuries and war trauma. All are readjusting to civilian life and that is no easy task.
While some videos show injury, death, danger and destruction, others bear witness to camaraderie, humour and humanity in impossible conditions.
Videos 1 - 16 by Danilo who was fighting around Klishchiivka and Kurdiumivka, both a few miles due south of Bakhmut. Before there, Danilo was engaged in combat operations in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions.
russian artillery lands close nearby
Medic records russian shelling from outpost
Ukrainian soldiers rest in their trench dugout
Ukrainian soldiers rest in their trench dugout 2
Ukrainian soldiers rest in their trench dugout 3
Funny moments with a russian washing line
Trampling on trash brought to Ukraine by orcs
Dead russian orcs around a conquered outpost
Ukrainian soldiers in their trench
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Ukrainian soldier under sporadic gunfire
Ukrainian soldiers looking for russian orcs
Injured russian orc
Ukrainian vehicle hits a landmine and blows up
The aftermath
Videos and photos 1 - 13 by Svyatoslav who was fighting in Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Staromayorsk and Bohdanivka. Svyatoslav is originally from Odessa but will be guiding in Lviv. Some of his drawings and paintings, finished in between eliminating russian orcs, can be seen below (8 - 13).
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Remembering Commander Alexander Gostishchev, Hero Warrior of Ukraine.
russia wants to recreate the former Soviet Union by force and Vladimir Putin is at the wheel, so to speak. He has already killed almost half a million people (mostly his own people, thrown into the "meat grinder" of east Ukraine) in his quest to subjugate Ukraine.
Putin uses fear, terror, propaganda, and baseless, outrageous claims about Ukraine having no right to exist. His objective is the total annihilation of Ukrainian culture. Do we have another Adolf Hitler in the room? Absolutely yes.
The russian people live simple, ignorant lives, controlled by Kremlin-controlled mass media in an evaporating democracy.
Are they also to blame? Yes. There has been no sign of revolution or revolt in russia, bar Yevgeny Prigozhin's ill-fated Wagnerian march on Moscow and freedom fighters in russia's western regions.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine and partisan groups in the temporarily occupied territories of our south and east have eliminated c. 20% of the Black Sea Fleet, over 450,000 russian soldiers (orcs, mostly convicts), and 15% of russia's oil industry.
They are sending drones deep inside russia that target military airfields and installations, some towns have been bombed and civilians killed, in Belgorod, for example. russians are finally waking up to the war they started.
For how long can this continue? NATO support, more specifically US support has wavered of late, but the delivery of more Patriot air defence systems is imminent as are dozens of F-16s.
Putin is flattening our second city, Kharkiv, while almost every Ukrainian city is being bombed on a daily basis. Even Lviv has been hit, although russia generally targets energy infrastructure in our western regions and those sites are rural.
russians being russians, we all face challenging conditions. Drones and missiles arrive between 3am and 6am when people are trying to sleep.
Putin threatens nuclear war every second month and his military planners have taken to targeting civilians, a sick terror tactic designed to drive Ukrainians from their homes, leaving empty towns and cities that russians will eventually occupy and "develop".
While it is probable that NATO and its tentacles engineered the removal from office of pro-russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, that does not change the fact that Ukraine has the absolute right to democratic governance. The definition of democracy in the modern world is to be fully independent of interference by russia and china.
NATO expansionism is real, but NATO countries are broadly democratic, or at least significantly nicer countries to live in than russia (and china, iran, north korea).
Can a lasting peace be achieved? The point of no return is in the rear-view mirror and the spectre of clown President Trump looms large. He will end all support for Ukraine and listen to what Putin has to say about the future of our south and east.
Could things be better? In our opinion, Ukraine should have negotiated a neutral status in 2014 with NATO security guarantees. It didn't happen, we entered into a frozen conflict while russia built up its forces, and here we are.
✍ by admin on November 8th, 2024.