11/13/2023 0 Comments Tell me why i'm waiting l![]() ![]() (Day 1: 560 calories, 350 milliliters of water. I spent five days in that tomb waiting for death, sometimes urinating in a plastic bottle and counting the calories I consumed and the amount of water I drank for fun. Seeking protection, I lay down in a tiny trench. Suddenly we found ourselves in a trap - there was no one to cover us. The Russians captured the rest of the city and most of the Ukrainian units left. The unit I commanded was given the task of building a combat position on the outskirts of the city, but everything was changing very quickly. In Bakhmut, where I served in May, they were inescapable. But did I really want to fight? Do hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians really want to risk their lives, to be separated from their families in flooded trenches or dry steppes? Did I really want to die at the end of the world, from which not everyone returns? Probably every Ukrainian soldier asks these questions that don’t have answers. Now I’m making efforts to prevent a new stage of subjugation in my country. I put my writing on hold and took up arms instead. ![]() But Russia, not content with destroying the statehood of Ukraine once before, had other plans. ![]() This story was supposed to become a book, and I was supposed to fulfill my dream: to follow the path of my protagonist from Front Royal, Va., to Ozark, Mo., taking in all the life I could savor. I’ve always been very interested in the history of the United States, and the idea of integrating a Ukrainian protagonist - not a classic emigrant but a soldier on the side of the North, with his own history of servitude under the yoke of the Russian Empire - into the realities of the Civil War was attractive to me. ![]() It took place in America in 1863, and followed a Ukrainian man as he traveled from Virginia to Missouri, meeting on his way various weirdos, soldiers, deserters and runaway slaves. Like Thy coming again.When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was writing a novel. ![]()
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