Duce Putin! World is tired: "boys" are already coming to you! Ukrainian soldier’s letter to Russian dictator
Do you know what was the most difficult thing for me in preparing this material? I didn’t know how to address Vladimir Putin! Mr Putin? What kind of sir is he, seriously? Honourable Vladimir Putin? They will beat me up for sure, because why on earth would anyone in Ukraine have any respect for him nowadays?
Comrade Putin? Why the hell is Putin a comrade anymore? Hey, you? It's not very diplomatic... Not a leader, despite his friendship with African leaders, not an emperor, although there are attempts to create an empire, not a tsar, despite the royal palaces... And I found a compromise. I will address V. Putin as "duce", because that is how Benito Mussolini, the head of the National Fascist Party, was addressed. Is it good?
So, duce Putin! TODAY, both our cemeteries and those of Russia are overflowing with the fallen in this Russian-Ukrainian war. There is one significant difference: in our cemeteries rest those who died defending their land from the aggressor and occupier, and in the cemeteries of the Russian Federation, invaders, aggressors and occupiers are buried, who died trying to seize someone else's land. You, the racist duce, tell the citizens of your state that "they died defending Russia from the enemy", without even realising the absurdity of these words! How can you die during an invasion of the territory of a FOREIGN country and justify this aggression by defending your own country? A normal person cannot understand this.
Paradoxically, if it were not for this war, many citizens of the Russian Federation would be able to live their lives as decent and honourable people... Think about their own statements: "One nation, one country, one leader!", "We are not seeking truth, but effect!", "Today, even the most radical measures cannot be called radical and the most total war is not total enough", "Give me the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs!", "You have to hit it so hard that the pieces fly!" Oh, it's not you, it's Nazi propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels! Isn't the truth incredibly similar? Especially about the media and one people - one country? Logically, if the people of Russia and its leadership were not satisfied with the NATO bloc, they should have fought with this bloc, not attacked a state that was not a member of this bloc and was not even invited to join. It is wild, incredibly absurd, and unjustified - but you, duce Vladimir, understand this perfectly well yourself. And you always have.
The blitzkrieg completely failed, but the leaders of ruscism did not have the courage to admit it! After all, how could the "victorious country" fail? After all, the world has swallowed everything before: Aleppo, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Transnistria, Crimea, Donbas, the Malaysian Boeing... This time, the ideology of imperial chauvinism, which you have adopted along with the FABs, "Kalibrs" and "Iskanders" that Russia is bombarding Ukraine with, fortunately, did not work for Ukraine and the whole world. The inhabitants of the planet Earth have seen and heard with their own eyes the answer to the question "Do the Russians want war?" Ukrainian cities razed to the ground, hundreds of thousands of killed and maimed Ukrainians, millions of refugees, more than 500 murdered children, crying orphans, grieving mothers and wives - this is the true price of the unfulfilled ambitions of a politician who was out of touch with reality and made a wrong and fatal step. For himself and his country, by the way, too. I think you are well aware of WHAT exactly the people of Ukraine, ravaged by Russian bombs and missiles, wish you every second... I and my brothers in arms do too. We wish you death. A terrible death and, preferably, in terrible agony. I am sure that this does not surprise you at all, even though you are basking in a warm bath of information.
By the way, the hordes of dark and degraded conquerors from Russia, who destroy everything light, are already being called the "Orc Army" even abroad! You, the inhabitants of the country of the neo-Nazis, have destroyed the myth of the "country that defeated Nazism" and "we can do it again"! After all, it is the Russian Federation that has completely revived Nazism with a "Russian face" today, and has become an aggressor, occupier, robber, rapist and murderer! It is you who are taking our children out of Ukraine, annexing foreign lands, destroying Ukrainian literature, keeping Ukrainian citizens and politically unreliable Russian citizens in concentration camps, rehabilitating and honouring sadistic prisoners who killed even their own mothers and are now shooting at Ukrainian mothers. You don't care that "women" will no longer "give birth" because there will be no one to give birth to them... And that these "women" will be raped and killed by the prisoners who have been released from prisons en masse... And that once something is born, it has to grow for a long time to work for it... And that about half of it will drink itself out of hopelessness during this time...
And the third year of the war has shown that it will not "repeat" anything Russia is no longer capable: corruption and sham have long since eaten away at the empire's former power, because, being beyond any criticism, the Russian authorities are only capable of stealing and imitating their former greatness. I am sure that if the ruscist army had to really face the NATO army, you, duce, would have been personally knocking on doors with the imperialist Igor Girkin in your cell or moved the remains of your capital to Valdai long ago.
Degenerated by hatred of imaginary enemies, Russia now respects only those who show brutal cruelty - that is why it will NEVER be able to become democratic, and all the liberal values of Europe and the West are just nonsense for it, making the civilised world weaker. The assassination of Prigozhin, the imprisonment of Girkin-Strelkov, and the dismissal of war criminals Shoigu and Patrushev are clear signs that Russia itself has begun irreversible processes of extermination and elimination of those who know too much and cause the Russian emperor fear. But we all die one day. These are the realities. And no Botox or stem cell injections can stop these processes. However, there are things that can accelerate them: a bribed personal doctor, a sniper's well-aimed shot, a successful missile strike, a helicopter hitting a rock, or a Novichok used without orders - and the obituary will be the only mention that this creature once trampled on cow parsley or flew with vultures. A man who loved his Labrador Koni to pieces, is in love with his alabaster Virtuous and his shepherd Buffy, is tender towards the Japanese Akita Yume and even the goat Skazka, but despises the lives of hundreds of thousands and even millions of innocent people, calls the atrocities in Bucha and Irpen a "play" - he simply does not deserve to be called a MAN and does not even have the right to live among people!
Today, all the anti-Ukrainian narratives that Russian propaganda spread at the beginning and throughout the war have come crashing down. Shall I list them?
- The constant argument is that both Poroshenko and Zelenskyy are illegal presidents because they came to power after the 'rebellion' in 2014." Then Yeltsin and Putin are also illegal presidents, because they came to power after a "coup" in 1991, right?
- "The Russian-speaking population is being persecuted in Ukraine". Every fourth person who went to defend Ukraine is Russian or Russian-speaking. If the allegations of Russian propagandists were true, these people would never have voluntarily come to the military commissariats to defend this country.
- "Nazism and fascism are flourishing in Ukraine". The citizens of Ukraine elected a Jew as President of their country in democratic elections. There are Jews, Tatars, Russians and Ukrainians in the government of our country. Therefore, even talk of Ukrainians being "Nazis" is ridiculous and does not even need to be discussed.
- "The Russian army wanted to demilitarise Ukraine". What was the result? Over the two years of war, the Ukrainian army has become the most powerful in Europe, we have received Haimars, Atakams, and F-16s on the way. And?
- "The so-called 'denazification' that Russia allegedly wanted to carry out" has turned into the usual extermination of the Ukrainian population. This is on the verge of genocide and will definitely receive a proper assessment by the international community. The arrest warrant for Putin issued by The Hague is a clear confirmation of this.
- The fake that propaganda channels have been spreading that a small, 30 million-strong, nuclear-free Ukraine wanted to attack the huge 140 million-strong nuclear power Russia also needs no comment. Orwell and his 1984 are quietly smoking in the corner, and Goebbels is in the other world enviously asking who Solovyov is. You, duce Putin (not only football fans call you differently here), have deliberately and purposefully turned your country into a totalitarian dictatorial ideologically chauvinistic collection of people whose worldview is shaped by lies and incredible fear.
- I won't even mention the "mosquitoes and ducks controlled and bred in Ukrainian biolabs" - even the many Russian scabeevs who launched it laugh at this fiction. And what do we have left as a result of the Kremlin's "powerful" arguments? Nothing. Just nothing. The cheapest "pontifications" for the domestic consumer.
Don't you, a person who has twice "failed" in Ukraine (Maidan 2004 and Maidan 2014), still not understand that the third abyss is just around the corner? And it can swallow the unfinished empire of the ruscists forever. Russia managed to saturate Ukrainian business and politics with its agents and influences, put its people at the head of our special services and army, and even put a twice-convicted thieving convict in the highest position in Ukraine, seize Crimea, and flood Donbas with blood, but an open invasion of Ukraine was openly overkill and blasphemous.
I did not vote for President Zelenskyy and I believe that his election was a strategic mistake by Ukrainians who simply did not have the instinct for self-preservation. But, despite everything, he is our president, and we will somehow deal with our mistakes ourselves. His biggest mistake, in my opinion, was trying to please Ukraine's eternal enemy, Russia, and to appease you personally. All these Omanis, Istanbul and the search for methods to pacify the aggressor are just naive childish attempts to feed the crocodile in the hope that it will eat you later. Taking advantage of his inexperience and using the influence of his agents, Vladimir Vladimirovich deceived Vladimir Alexandrovich. And himself. Because this bloody massacre will never be forgiven by you, duce of Russia and the Russians, by the mothers and fathers of the dead and maimed, by their brothers and sisters-in-arms; and the children of Ukrainian heroes will tell their children and grandchildren not about friendship with Russia, but about a treacherous and vile enemy in the North who deserves only death, curses and contempt.
I understand perfectly well that you, Rashaduce, were personally misinformed about the internal situation in Ukraine by your numerous generously funded intelligence communities, joined by thousands of Ukrainian Medvedchuks who saw billions of Russian dollars, assuring you that they had prepared a powerful "fifth column", but, I am sorry, this is your problem and your personal mistake as President. A person who does not correct a mistake makes another mistake. The last one. Russia has lost this war. There is no debate about it. The 150,000 Russian soldiers and officers killed and 300,000 wounded and maimed Russian servicemen have already been counted - this is too high a price to pay for four Ukrainian district towns and the city of Mariupol. This is ten Afghanistan! This is understood even by the zombie slaves from a country where no one knows why they are going to kill innocents.
The French (whose leader Macron is proposing to send troops to help Ukraine) say that "Treason is a matter of time"! And you, duce, as a former intelligence officer, understand what I mean. The world will no longer allow some political toxic Neanderthal and his cronies to change the contours of states. This was already attempted 80 years ago by someone who ended up in a Berlin bunker with a bullet in his head, along with his young wife. And another duce, who wanted to turn the world upside down to help him fulfil his dream, was hanged upside down with his wife in Italy! In the Russian swamps and in geopolitics, they don't like losers. Despite the fact that they have a young wife. As a former St Petersburg hooligan, you, duce, must understand that it is also a great art to end a fight that is not going well for you and start running away through the courtyards. As the Chinese say (they are the ones who are keeping Russia alive today): "Even the longest journey begins with the first step!"
By the way, I, a former soldier of the 62nd Battalion of the 103rd TRO Brigade, and now an air defence shooter, in civilian life a journalist and editor of the Lviv newspaper Ratusha, was not authorised by anyone to do anything, and I do not represent any state, public or political structure. This is only MY opinion and MY position. The opinion of a soldier who has his own trench truth. As this war has shown, life is too short to put anything (including your own opinion and position) on hold. That is why I will not appeal here to the laws violated by Russia on the recognition of Ukraine's borders, or to such an unusual concept as "conscience" for the occupiers. Fuhrer of Russian chauvinists! Russia must end the war immediately - or cease to exist altogether. The further continuation of the bloody war without the rapid destruction of Ukraine (and "Kyiv in three days!" is not and will not work!) weakens Russia's ability to remain intact on its historical territory. This calls into question the very "correction of the great geopolitical mistake of 1991", as Russian citizen Vladimir Putin has stated. Personally, I am comforted by this. But I don't think you will. Extending the war in time means inevitable failures in Russia's budget, a complete collapse of the economy, which is still bursting at the seams despite being put on a military footing, further destruction of Russian refineries by drones, which will be extremely difficult to restore under economic sanctions, court mutinies, confrontations between different towers of the Kremlin, and attempts to physically eliminate V. V. Putin and his doppelgangers, constant military and diplomatic defectors and traitors, discontent among personnel and generals, rallies of relatives of the fallen Russian military, in case of a change in China's position - hunger riots, impoverishment and internal separatist centrifugal movements in the Caucasus, Tatarstan, Yakutia and Buryatia, the collapse of Russia, lifelong shame, the Hague Nuremberg and again - an attempt to destroy the one who knows the most. All of these consequences are a feast for the soul of every Ukrainian patriot, but for one thing - these sprouts of destruction of the chauvinist state are watered with streams of Ukrainian blood EVERY DAY!
Let's consider another option. Personally, I will be extremely uncomfortable with it, but it will obviously be the most effective and implementable. The aggressor country Russia, without any conditions or negotiations, withdraws all its troops to the borders on 24 February 2022, announces that the goal of the fake SMO (demilitarisation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) has been achieved, and the quasi-entities - the DPR-LPR - are now under the armed protection of the Russian Federation. The consequences? Nothing unexpected: Vladimir Putin, despite expectations, will not retain his political face, but will be reborn in politics, and, God forgive me for saying this, in the eyes of many international opportunists, he will appear, no matter how wild it sounds, as a peacemaker! As Nikulin said in The Diamond Hand: "Maybe I'll even get a medal!" Moreover, yesterday's dictator, murderer and disturber of the peace of the world community will become a hero in the eyes of the Western public, shocked by the change in the vector! I am convinced that the collective West will forget about The Hague and the crimes committed by Russia on the territory of Ukraine, threats with nuclear weapons, trade in Siberian gas will resume at prices higher than for China, and the Russian ruler will get a chance, to my deep regret and that of millions of Ukrainian citizens, to die his own death, not from poison, a shot or radiation. The question of reparations in the event of such an outcome will disappear, and the collective West and China will most likely temporarily take over the rebuilding of Ukraine's economy and infrastructure destroyed by Russia. The international community will treat Russia as an inhabitant of a leprosarium: on the one hand, everyone will understand that the creature is terminally ill and dying, losing parts of its body in public, but on the other hand, it will be feared because of the presence of the infection, despite assurances that leprosy is not transmitted by contact.
The first step in changing the vector, the duce of the ruscist Nazis, should be an immediate cessation of rocket and other shelling of Ukrainian cities and towns. The second step would be the voluntary transfer of 1,000-2,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war to Ukraine. Not an exchange, but the voluntary return of Ukrainian prisoners of war, whom the Russian Federation is currently using as a lever of blackmail against the Ukrainian authorities through the relatives of these prisoners of war. I am ready to take a direct part in this process, voluntarily giving up any security guarantees regarding my person. Representatives of the Catholic and Orthodox churches or the Turkish side, which has already developed mechanisms in this area, can be used as intermediaries. There is simply no other way to resolve these issues now.
You may be given some more time, duce Vladimir, to issue ultimatums and nuclear threats that are no longer scary to anyone, and then the experts with killer arguments, who are not for nothing considered the best in the world, will take over. As Golda Meir said to the head of the Mossad after the attack on Jewish athletes: "It's time to send in the boys!" This special operation, by the way, was called "The Wrath of God". It is the option I have outlined that is being offered to Russia today (with numerous nuances, clarifications and branches) in open talks and closed meetings of intelligence agencies of different countries. And as the uncle of the "Komsomol member and activist" in The "Caucasian Captive" told the naive Shurik: "You can refuse, of course. But then they'll stab you to death." But we are talking about another possible version of the development of events...
Mykola SAVELIEV, Ukrainian Armed Forces, call sign "Volotsuga"