Kiev: “The president was not seriously injured.” The dynamics are investigated. And during his visit to Izyum he confidently announces: “There will be courts, trials, verdicts”
Libera nos a malo … And by the Russians. And from all this pain. Volodymyr Zelensky he has his hand on his heart, hoists the blue and the yellow on the reconquered ruins of Izyum. At first he indulges in a bit of counter-offensive rhetoric: “Before, looking up, we were always looking for the blue of the sky and the yellow of the sun, now we’re just looking for our flag.” So he goes to the very front, which Putin has never done in recent months, and visit the horrors of newly liberated Ukraine. “Always the same violence, houses destroyed, civilians killed …”. There is a torture chamber in Balakliya. Icy, stripped of everything. And on the wall only desperate graffiti.
The last prayers, the tears of those sentenced to death. The design of a cross, with the words of the Our Father: «And do not abandon us», «but free us from evil» … Echoes of unimaginable suffering. Pale, “Ze” widens his eyes: “The visit here is truly shocking. But not for me. Why these things we started seeing them from Bucha, from the liberated territories. What they did in Izyum, unfortunately, is part of our history and the history of modern Russia ». One certainty: “I’m sure we will have the courts, the trials, the verdicts.” A promise: «One day we will also return to the Crimea, eight years have passed. I don’t know when, nobody knows. But my message is that we will come back there too ».
8,500 square kilometers and 388 villages freed, 150,000 people: it’s too early to call it a rematch. Because the war still mows down the best. The first dancer of the Kiev Opera falls. “Simba” dies, paramedic sergeant Olga Simonova, who had given up her Russian passport to enlist with the Ukrainians and had become the symbol of the rescue: she was on a thousand posters, blonde and in uniform, but the other day she jumped on a mine . “Let’s wait to play the fanfare», Warns the head of the German armed forces, Eberhard Zorn: Putin has employed only 60% of the troops, no navy and air force, even if« today we can say with certainty that he will no longer be able to have all the Donbass ».
Four days ago, the Russians were in Izyum. Now they have recoiled 15 km, leaving walls with holes in them, shops destroyed, houses uncovered. Ghosts, too: in Hrakove there were a thousand inhabitants, about thirty remain, who came out of the cellars to describe those “frightened and paranoid” invaders who seized “even our cell phones, for fear of us using the locators”. Zelensky listens, shakes hands, hugs. He indulges in optimism (“we will get to victory!”) and praises the new Ukrainian hero, General Oleksandr Syrsky who led the arrival-our-ours. “But the reconquest must be strengthened,” he explains.
And he has a new shopping list for the West: “We need Mlrs rocket launchers, Leopard tanks, armored vehicles, air defenses, drones, rockets», Lists his shopkeeper Mikhailo Podolyak. Everyone knows that the Russians will not stand still for long: the Chechen Ramzan Kadyrov, given as the next defense minister, laughs at “the couch strategists who tell us about retreat”, asks Putin “martial law” in Russia, he angrily invokes the use of “any weapon”.
Woe to those who give up: the tsar has three of his collaborators, interviewed by Reuterswho tell how in March the Russian envoy Dmitry Kozak had almost reached an agreement with Kiev to avoid the clash, but was stopped by Putin himself who at the last changed his mind. “All inventions,” says the Kremlin. Which raises, to be even more explicit: bombing Kryvyi Rih, the city of Zelensky all day long.
In the evening the Ukrainian president is been involved in a car accident. His Facebook spokesperson said Zelensky “was not seriously injured.” He was seen by a doctor. They will investigate the dynamics law enforcement
September 15, 2022 (change September 15, 2022 | 01:57)
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