The Emperor turned out to be naked.
The ninth day of the war. The main event of the night: Enerhodar, the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Physicists say a Chernobyl-level scenario is far away, but tank crews were carrying out an order to fire on a nuclear power plant, and apparently no nuclear scientists were consulted. Then the briefing on Kyiv, Kherson, Mariupol. And the question of the day: Zelensky demands that the sky over Ukraine be closed.…
“Demands”: that phrase must be understood in the context of relations between countries. The Budapest Memorandum of 1994: guarantees from Russia, Britain, and the US. Articles 4 and 6: seek action by the UN Security Council and consult. That’s all. We know what the UN is worth.…
I demand the sky be closed. It isn’t a plea for help, it’s public pressure. I have no real levers.
The host switches off the broadcast, and in the silence each thinks of his own. The son of the joker. The father of how to help without giving himself away. And ahead lies another ninth book of this cycle: one that begins with “The Mirror of Putin’s Double” and reaches Kyiv.
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