Voice of Ukraine

From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (905th day)

Ruzzians are outraged by Ukrainian incursion into Kursk region. They say, ruzzia has not been invaded since 1941! Of course, it’s not because ruzzia is such a peaceful country! There were in fact, multiple ruzzian military attacks on other countries, though ruzzians like to use various euphemisms to call their military aggression against others:

• Russian military repression of Hungarian revolution against Stalinist government in 1956 is called by ruzzians International Duty of Defending Socialist Achievements
• ruzzian invasion into Czechoslovakia in 1968 in ruzzia Is called International Duty of Defending Socialist Achievements
• Arab-Israel wars 1967-1979 is called by ruzzians International Help to Egypt and Syria
• Afgan war 1979-1989 is called in ruzzian International Help to Afghanistan
• First Chechen war 1994-1996 is presented in ruzzia history textbooks as Operation of restoration of constructive order in Chechnya
• Second Chechen war 1999-2009 – Counter terrorist operation
• ruzzia-Georgia war in 2008 is called by ruzzians Operation of enforcing peace (that’s a creative one, don’t you think?:)
• Annexation of Crimea, Ukraine, 2014 till now – they call it Special operation of returning Crimea into Russia.
• War in the Eastern Ukraine. 2014 till now – ruzzians denied participation in war
• ruzzia-Ukraine war 2022 is called by rurzzians Special Military Operation to defend DPR and LPR (occupied by ruzzia territories of Ukraine that ruzzia announced as independent republics)

So for once, now ruzzians get to experience a backlash of their military aggression. For the first time, they are getting a taste of war on their land – even if on a smaller scale and not nearly as cruel as the kind of war they brought on our land.

In one of FB groups someone pointed out the differences:

Never has the saying “when two do the same thing, it is not the same” been more fitting than the current Ukrainian offensive into the Kursk region. When the ruzzian invaded the Kyiv region in spring of 2022, we witnessed brutal violence including the murders of civilians and prisoners, numerous rapes, torture and other forms of terror, as the ruzzian soldiers looted everything that could be taken and destroyed everything that could not. Ukrainian incursion is the polar opposite for now. The occupied municipalities are often conquered almost without destruction (or the houses paradoxically destroyed by the ruzzian army and its air force), for example, Suža is practically intact. Nobody loots houses or shops, Ukrainian soldiers deliver humanitarian packages to civilians, nobody is tortured, raped or killed. And the biggest blow to putin’s propaganda of “ruzzian-speaking population to be protected” is being inflicted by elderly residents of border villages who speak fluent Ukrainian with Ukrainian soldiers – because Ukrainian is their native language. Overall, the reaction of the civilian population is entirely different from the conquest of Kyiv, when the civilian population helped build barriers, went out to the streets to block ruzzian columns, or prepared flammable bottles and stored weapons for possible resistance. We don’t see anything like this in ruzzia. Part of the population evacuated, and the rest showed no negative emotions towards Ukrainian soldiers – they often even welcomed them.