From a Ukrainian trench in the middle of a firefight
My Ukrainian neighbor showed me a scene sent to him yesterday from the front lines (somewhere). The noise from the guns was almost deafening, and he said it was two Ukrainians holding off ten Russians. There was one Russian soldier rushing the trench and getting shot down by the defenders maybe fifty feet away, maybe less. He said the two Ukrianians won out, the Russians being either killed or fleeing. This was rather gruesome to watch in real time.
Again--these reports need to be viewed im the light of a Ukrainian combat vet (Afghanistan, 40 years ago) who had nothing but disdain for the Russians he fought with in Afghanistan, and whose homeland is being pounded by Russian destruction right now. But the cell phone clip he showed me sure as hell was no scene that was set up in advance, and the Russian I saw getting shot down was no puppet. He was waving his gun around, looking for a target that already had him in their sights, as he found out a second later.
I know Putin doesn't give a rat's ass, but I wish scenes like this could be played back to the Russians with the note "This was someone's son. Tomorrow, it xould be yours. Is conquering the Ukraine for Russia more important to you than the next young man's life?"
The Ukrainians are fighting for their home. The Russians are fighting for Putin's power and wealth, even though many of them either refuse to acknowledge it, or are too drunk to notice. Does anyone even need to ask whose is the greater motivation?
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