A person is viewed not as a citizen, but as a resource. Temporary. Expendable. Interchangeable.
Before the broadcast I asked again: “So where is my father?” The guest looked at a glass, then into my eyes: “Go to hell.” The camera lights came on. In the briefing I spoke of the eighth day: the offensive continues, but its pace is lower than expected. Kherson and Melitopol are under control, “activists” are brought into the cities for the TV picture, around Kyiv Ukraine moves to counteroffensives.…
The proper name for humanitarian corridors is filtration camps. That’s how they seize not only territory but its main resource: the population. First “evacuation,” buses, smiles. Then checks of documents, phones, social media. Then “conversations.” Short at first, then long. And then comes torture. I appeal to the residents of Ukraine: if you can, leave the combat zone, but not to wherever you will be “directed.”
I thought I was exposing the system. It turns out I handed a manual, on a silver platter with a blue border, to the modern regime.
The cameras went dark. The guest topped up his glass with water and drank it in one gulp. Tomorrow is the ninth day of the war, and at dawn will come a briefing about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia plant: “Tank crews were carrying out an order to fire on a nuclear power plant. Apparently, no nuclear scientists were consulted.”
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