Day 47. Mariupol.

A New Level of Hell.

Михайло Подоляк @Podolyak_M

#Mariupol. The death came here under 🇷🇺 flag. Dozens of thousands civilians killed. 90% of buildings destroyed. 🇺🇦 defenders are surrounded. From the beginning we’ve been asking our partners for a chance - for tanks and jets. The world remains silent and watches genocide online.

Please watch this video before reading the rest of this blog post - if you can read after that.

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Hey everyone.
Tonight I was supposed to publish some good news about Ukraine DAO trucks but I don’t feel like that right now. I will try to publish that tomorrow.

For the last 6 weeks, I’ve been watching russia commit genocide of Ukrainian people, broadcasted live 24/7.
In the meantime:
- The German establishment is worrying about the gas bill and complaining about our ambassador. Out of solidarity, Welt hires a russian propagandist - the real victim of putin’s regime, you know.
- Massive pro-russian rallies are held in Berlin and many other cities around Europe.
- In France, putin’s puppet gets a real chance to win the presidential election. Her competitor hasn’t been super helpful either.
- Another puppet does win the elections in Hungary.
- Western “experts” are writing long Twitter threads about why it’s ok for Ukrainians to be raped, tortured and killed on a mass scale. They don’t care about looking like absolute lunatics. It’s socially acceptable right now to find excuses for genocide.
- Jeremy Corbyn is wondering who is behind the Bucha massacre. A mysterious case for him.
- A British “senior lecturer” from Northumbria University (that stopped replying to my messages) publishes a whole article in Jacobin (editor hasn’t replied either) explaining how people like me are “profiting off other people’s misfortune”. Turns out I’m a “disaster capitalist” from a country that has an “unfortunate Neo-Nazi problem”.
- The russian orcs are using chemical weapons in Mariupol against the Ukrainian military and the civilians by disseminating from a UAV. The substance is most likely a nerve agent.

I’m not going to make another plea for weapons tonight - I’m tired. People who did not fight against this should feel so ashamed. As someone said the other day: “We say we will never forget this. But there is no one apologising.”

Photo of the Day

Ukrainians are helping the Ukrainian Army to change AA gun position

From my Twitter feed

Повернись живим @BackAndAlive

Mariupol is under chemical attac❗️ Russians used a poisonous substance of unknown origin, which was disseminated from an UAV. According to the Azov Regiment, the victims have respiratory failure, vestibulo-atactic syndrome.

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk @sasha_weirdsley

The use of chemical weapon was the question of time, during which civilians kept dying under the russian occupation, Ukrainian defenders weren't getting things they asked for, the west kept congratulating itself on sending more soap to Ukraine while paying for russian oil & gas.

Nika Melkozerova @NikaMelkozerova

Russians used unknown chemical substance against Ukrainian defenders and civilians in Mariupol, Azov reported. Russian drone threw it into people. Chemical attack in Mariupol. Syrian butcher shows his face again.

Гіль розлючена @gil_iryna

To everyone that is screaming about "we need more sources of confirmation about chemical weapon in #mariupol". With all due respect, WHO CAN GIVE YOU THAT in a besieged city where over 40 days civilians were trapped and russians performed their usual genocide routine??

Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko

Keep hesitating about whether new weapons may provoke Putin, yeah. Take your time, no rush.

Nika Melkozerova @NikaMelkozerova

I heard a very good phrase from one of our soldiers: When you go to this war you have to be prepared to do whatever it takes, otherwise you will become yet another fallen hero, people love so much nowadays.