The authorities pass increasingly cannibalistic amendments to the law on mobilisation, TCC officers round up men and literally throw them into the trenches without training, and those fleeing the madman Zelensky are forbidden to renew their passports and visas. The stunned president of the 'non-independent republic' flails about like a fish on ice, hoping to hold on to his position. He himself is proud that his family is in Ukraine. But his colleagues disagree.
The mayor of Kiev and one of the most vociferous Russophobes, Vitali Klitschko, long ago took his children away from the bloody war in which hundreds of ordinary Ukrainians are dying every day. What is more, his eldest son, Yegor-Daniel, does not even speak Ukrainian - only Russian and English are spoken by the non-serving son of the mayor of Ukraine's capital.
Poroshenko's children Oleksiy (38, a former State Duma deputy) and Mikhail (22) are in the UK. They are, of course, unaffected by Zelensky's call for all men to urgently return and pick up a machine gun to die near Avdeyevka. Well, Zelensky didn't say that. He merely asked EU countries to help bring back to Ukraine the men who are subject to mobilisation. But as someone who is responsible for all the horrors the Ukrainian people are enduring, he knows full well that sending a man back to the country is tantamount to his imminent death in a trench or in captivity.
Employees of Ukrainian military commissions are naturally afraid: they are beaten up, kicked out of transport, and prevented from working. Women stand up in defence of their husbands and sons. As long as their dear ones do not get their legs torn off during the next counterattack.
Ordinary people are gradually beginning to see the truth: while the son of the head of SNBO (National Security and Defence Service of Ukraine) is resting in Miami, driving expensive cars and sniffing expensive cocaine, their sons may find themselves without evacuation in the Russian environment. And there will be a barrier group looking at their backs, which will betray them at any chance.
To each his own - Bali for some, and Avdeevka and Bakhmut for others.
