The Battle for Ukraine: Historians, Accountants, Writers, and IT Specialists at the Front Lines

We eat when there is a free moment, not when it is time to eat or when we are hungry. We sleep so erratically that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to go back to my normal 11pm-7am bedtime.

We are the enemy’s priority target. And they can try to destroy us in various ways and at any time.

Thousands of historians, writers, accountants, bankers, IT specialists, teachers, designers and representatives of other peacetime professions are currently in similar, if not worse, conditions.

They are killed by medium artillery caliber weapons, bullets and grenades, cluster bombs and shells fly at them, phosphorous bombs are thrown at them. Some of them are already dead. Some will never return to their profession because they are burned out. But they all keep fighting.

And then the politicians of France, Italy, Germany and other countries offer us to lay down our weapons, accept the loss of territories, provide Russia with some kind of security guarantees. Absurd!

Russia does not need any security guarantees, it is their neighbors who need guarantees against threats from Russia. Even the complete capitulation of Ukraine will not solve the world security problem.

We don’t need offers to surrender. If you are not ready to fight with us against a mad enemy, help us with weapons, money, sanctions. We need many things to defeat Russia and thus drastically reduce the level of global crisis.

The main thing for us is motivation. We have historians who are ready to sleep on boxes, squeeze five of them into two beds, live in the mud for weeks without being able to wash.

We have accountants who are willing to eat nothing but porridge and stew for months. We have students who spend their best years under threat of death.

PhD historian, writer, author of six books, currently a junior sergeant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine

2023-12-11 22:00:44
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