Author Archives: RomanInUkraine

Yavoriv bombing

I lost contact with a friend of mine after the bombing, and I worried.

But he was okay, and spoke two days after it. His phone was destroyed, and most of his belonging too. But he was as cheerful as ever, saying that now he’ll finally be able to stop scrolling the news . . . because he no longer has a phone.

A Russian Informant Hung Himself

There are many details missing from this story, but here’s what I know.

My wife and I thought of buying a plot of land in Zhytomyr region. Our neighbor would have been a wealthy entrepreneur, the owner of a supermarket. A rumor has emerged that he was a Russian informant, that he knew he’d been discovered, and that he hung himself.

It’s just a rumor, and a lot doesn’t make sense.

China makes pro-Ukrainian comments today

“Assertions that China knew about or tacitly supported this war are purely disinformation. The conflict between RU and UKR does no good for China. Had China known about the imminent crisis, we would have tried our best to prevent it,” PRC’s ambassador to the US

“China will continue to be a force for good for Ukraine”: both economically and politically, said Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong during a meeting with the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, Maxim Kozytsky.
Source: Lviv Regional State Administration

Upside down world

We live in a crazy time.

The “Globalists” are suddenly happy for me to embrace my Ukrainian identity and for Ukraine to assert self-determination, while the populists types farther from mainstream media (with whom I hitherto strongly related) seem more likely to think I should just shut up and be Russian because Ukraine isn’t a real country and NATO is aggressively expanding.

(ps – NATO isn’t aggressively expanding. They were standing down in 2013, removing their last tanks from Germany. The countries who’ve known the hell on Earth created by Moscow were desperate to join NATO and spent almost a decade lobbying for it.)