That's how Russia works - deeply, structurally corrupt. Ukraine is corrupt, too, but at least there is hope of that improving.In 2022 Russia destroyed half of Mariupol. Now Moscow wants to show it is rebuilding the city.
But the reality is very different. Residents live in dangerous, half-built, leaking homes, while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions.
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In 2022 Russia destroyed half of Mariupol. Now Moscow wants to show it is rebuilding the city.
But the reality is very different. Residents live in dangerous, half-built, leaking homes, while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions.
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According to Tatarigami from X, Syrski is :
You have to be an idiot to become Carlson
If that is not trolling I dont know what is.
The more saddening thing about this, is that all these tragedy in Ukraine could be averted if Putin get what he wants.And the American weekly Newsweek describes a truly tragic episode that occurred in the battles near Avdeevka.
The publication's journalists interviewed Ukrainian serviceman Alexander, a mechanic-driver of a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. During the conversation, it turned out that this 19-year-old boy got into a fight with a Russian tank, commanded by... his father.
When father and son recognized each other, they immediately stopped shooting...
It turned out that Alexander lived in Russia as a child, but then for family reasons he moved to Ukraine and stopped communicating with his father. Before the invasion began, his father called Alexander and invited him to join the Russian army to fight together for the Motherland.
However, the young man chose a different path.
A meeting between a son and his father on the battlefield could have ended in tragedy for Alexander. According to the authors of the publication in Newsweek, it is possible that if someone else had driven the heavy Russian tank, the Ukrainian driver would most likely no longer be alive.
But unpredictable front-line fate decreed otherwise: Alexander survived and continues to fight for Ukraine in the Avdeevka region, and his father, a tanker, bypassed his son’s Bradley, rushed into battle, came under attack from Ukrainian drones and died.
When Newsweek journalists asked Alexander what his father told him, he muttered: “Nothing special... He jumped out of the tank, hugged me, and said: “As soon as I recognized you, I immediately stopped shooting.” And he left..."
Not as simple as that of course, as the Russian army advances forward Ukraine retaliate by heavily pounding Russian position which resulted in a huge number of buildings in Mariupol to be either damaged/destroyed by Ukrainian artillery shell. It doesn't help that Ukraine is actively using basements of civilian apartment as command center. Thereby making some sort of human shield around them.
