Kyiv needs sufficient supplies not only to survive, but above all to win.
The sixth day of the war. First, news from Russia: Echo of Moscow and Dozhd have been shut down, websites blocked, broadcasting cut. They continue on YouTube, I don’t know for how long. Then the briefing: Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kyiv, the same circle. I reminded viewers that taking a city is not like approaching a point and holding out sixty seconds in a computer game.…
“The hour is not far when we’ll resemble Seva Novgorodtsev and broadcast through Contra-BBC to your satellite dishes.” With all my strength I tried to change the nature of the regime when I came to power. It didn’t succeed: the efforts of one person are not enough. Then I described how the siege of Leningrad turned people into controllable skeletons, and how the same empire reaches toward Kyiv today.
I rushed to Leningrad as a symbol: historical capital, industrial giant. Then I stopped and began lazily shelling from the Pulkovo Heights. Everything was redirected to Moscow. I meant to make a lake where the city stood, but later.
The thread runs from silenced radio stations to a besieged city. The guest warns: support for Kyiv today will decide whom our grandchildren condemn. And the next day the host will ask the guest point-blank whether he is the same double who spoke to him after the lecture, and hear in reply: “That information is worth much more than a million.”
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