Continuous massive air strikes by Russia on the rear areas and energy infrastructure of Ukraine have spread genuine terror...
Because while Russian experts may wonder why, despite these extremely heavy military strikes, Kyiv has not yet capitulated, the damage being inflicted is enormous.
And it reaches such an extent that Ukrainian political analysts assess that the countdown for Kyiv has already begun and that the Ukrainian capital is nearing its collapse, a development that will reinforce citizens' despair and rage ahead of winter...
At the same time, Russian media point out, on the occasion of the dramatic revelations in a suburb of Kyiv regarding secret prisons and allegations of torturing Ukrainian soldiers, that the «project Ukraine» established by Europe and the West as a whole has failed completely...
And an initial consequence is already reflected in the words of NATO General Ingo Gerhartz, who confessed that no one in the West should feel completely protected against Russian weapons...
The first fractures
The long-awaited moment, which military analysts had anticipated for many months, arrived in a seemingly ordinary and almost unnoticed manner.
Even those who until the last moment attempted to keep their composure and reassured the public that success was inevitable have now begun speaking about the coming disaster.
Ukrainian political analyst Ruslan Bortnik described the situation in Kyiv in a particularly stark manner: extensive power cuts, problems in water supply and transport, offices without electricity for 12 consecutive hours.
In his assessment, the countdown has begun in the Ukrainian capital.
«This is not yet a catastrophe, but we are approaching the collapse of the city's functioning».
According to him, the situation in Kyiv is exceptionally difficult.
«We are only in early November.
If temperatures fall below freezing, I believe that Kyiv may this year, for the first time during the war years, turn into a humanitarian disaster zone».
Bortnik explained that such a development would severely destabilize the capital, which would begin losing population at devastatingly rapid rates, as residents would abandon the city en masse.
Along with them, tax revenues would also be lost, as well as financial resources indispensable for the operation of the capital.
«No one can predict what will happen»
At the same time, Bortnik appears cautious in his conclusions.
Even a complete blackout in Kyiv would not lead, in the short term, to a shift in the country's political direction.
However, he subsequently develops a different line of reasoning.
A prolonged crisis renders public opinion unpredictable.
Outraged people, lacking heating, water, and electrical power, create an environment in which any emotion can turn into aggression, even into violent reactions on the streets.
It is worth noting that the forecasts of the Ukrainian expert are not unfounded.
On the previous day, residents of Kyiv staged spontaneous demonstrations owing to the critical situation in the energy sector.
Citizens, having reached the brink of despair, began blocking streets and demanding solutions from the authorities.
As Bortnik highlighted, this already represents an alarming signal for the presidential administration on Bankova Street.
Torture chambers
Events in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, a suburb of Kyiv, are also considered indicative.
And the worst is still ahead.
«If the crisis lasts long, no one can predict how it will affect public opinion.
What we saw in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka is also influenced by this situation».
At the same time, an equally telling admission originated from the field of economic analysis.
What the elites dread
Ukrainian economic expert Alexey Kushch articulated what had long been apparent: the Ukrainian project of European integration has failed, but political elites are afraid to admit it.
According to him, everyone perceives reality, yet they remain silent, because recognizing the crisis presupposes presenting an alternative solution.
And, according to Kushch, only one alternative exists: the restoration of the country's geographical transit role and a pivot toward Asia.
«However, such a step can only be executed by a strong politician, because any of today's politicians attempting such a move would be burned at the political stake», he maintained.
The «Ukraine» project
Indeed, the «Ukraine» project, as time passes, transforms increasingly from a militarized, Russophobic lever that Europe shaped with the objective of destroying Russia, into a vast inferno not for Russians, but for Ukrainians.
An inferno where torture, murders, and terrorist acts do not constitute mere side effects of political decisions, but an end in themselves and an established practice of state governance.
All this takes place so that the Russophobic war can continue by every possible means, down to the last Ukrainian.
All those attempting to publicly present the torture center in Borshchahivka as an «isolated incident» are lying.
In reality, there are no «isolated incidents» at all.
There is a smoothly functioning system, which today, on the soil of the «Ukraine» project, has replaced all or nearly all state functions.
In Europe, the one that today feigns surprise asking «What is so strange here?», such a thing has happened before.
During the era of the Third Reich.
Death squads
Back then, European citizens were tortured and executed simply because they happened to cross paths with their persecutors.
In broad daylight or in the dead of night.
Because Nazism knows no other methods of governing a state, even an occupied one, beyond enforcing an instinctive, animal fear of violence.
And what those exercising violence and committing murders are called, whether it is the Gestapo, SS units, the Wehrmacht, or, as in Ukraine, some «independent assault regiment», matters not in the least.
Apart from «death squads», which operate on a grand scale across the entire territory and, naturally, with the consent of the population, the «Ukraine» project and Zelensky possess absolutely nothing else.
They have no army either
They possess no economy of their own, as rulers in Kyiv destroyed with their own hands whatever they could.
They possess no financial resources either, since all expenditures, revenues being a nonexistent concept there, are covered by foreign, that is European, state treasuries.
The «Ukraine» project does not possess an army in the modern sense of the term either.
Because an army does not mean that certain torturers violently snatch Ukrainian men, regardless of their condition and the circumstances in which they find themselves, anytime and anywhere, in order to conscript them.
An army means that, where compulsory military service exists, conscription is carried out according to the procedures stipulated by law.
Without the use of violence.
And with conscripts aware of the significance of fulfilling their military and civic duty.
When it all began
The destruction of state institutions did not begin in any way with the start of the special military operation, but much earlier.
Organizing a coup d'état, with violence and murders, painting the Maidan with blood, those who welcomed this overthrow, namely Ukrainians, and today it does not matter whether they did so consciously or not, not only made possible, with their own hands, the collapse of the state, but also accepted new methods of being governed.
By accepting and applauding then, 13 years ago, blood and violence, they acquired today, in all its magnitude, torture centers across the whole of their then so coveted independent Ukraine.
Across the whole of their independence.
Independence from Russia, which they hated so deeply then and continue to hate today.
If Ukrainians until now attempted not to think about all this, it is now time to open their eyes and see what media in their so coveted Europe publish today.
Torture chambers, where Ukrainians endured abuse, beatings, and fractures to bones, spinal column, and skull, are characterized as «military dormitories for conscripts».
Europe remains indifferent
Europe remains completely indifferent toward Ukrainians, regarding them as cannon fodder in its own war against the Russians.
And how this cannon fodder is controlled, organized, and dispatched to the front contact line does not interest it at all.
Ukrainians themselves decided to overthrow the legitimate government they had elected with their votes.
Through the use of violence, murders, and bloodshed.
Under slogans of Nazism and Russophobia.
Today it is too late to invoke humanitarianism, to cry for justice, and to curse anyone.
Completely too late.
Today Ukrainians will have to travel a long road of realization that what is occurring on the lands that remain under the control of Ukraine constitutes their own direct and absolute responsibility.
No, this is not an «it is your own fault», formulated to humiliate the victim.
It is a reminder of every person's responsibility for personal choices and actions in the political domain.
A reminder that every people gets the government it deserves.
In short, these were the real relations between society and the state that existed in Ukraine as long as it stood together with Russia.
Back then, there were neither violent abductions of men for conscription, nor torture centers, nor «death squads».
It is worth reflecting seriously on why all these emerged when the «Ukraine» project was created, which decided to turn toward Europe.
To reflect on it now, before the slogan «Down to the last Ukrainian» turns into reality.
Shock NATO admission: We are not protected from Russian weapons
Commander of Allied Joint Force Command NATO, General Ingo Gerhartz, who is responsible for the defense of Central and Eastern Europe, conceded that the Alliance does not possess absolute protection against weapon systems such as the Russian ones.
«Look at the production rates of Russian jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.
We cannot protect ourselves against them 100%», Gerhartz told The Times.
Putin had also previously stated that NATO, by increasing its military budgets, induces global militarization and an arms race. He had maintained that false claims regarding an alleged threat from Russia are used for this purpose, through which Western elites extract money from taxpayers and attempt to justify their mistakes in economic policy.
Major fire
Meanwhile, on the night of November 5, in the area of Sofiivska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv, a major blaze broke out at a warehouse complex following a strike with Geran type unmanned aerial vehicles.
The images are striking: collapsed metal structures, extensive flames, and firefighting crews operating at the site.
However, even greater interest is presented by details disclosed by the head of a pro-Russian underground informant network, Sergey Lebedev.
According to his information, the warehouses were not used exclusively for storing commercial merchandise, as military materiel was stored in certain areas as well.
Of particular interest, according to him, is the operating method of the logistics network.
Deliveries were carried out with large trucks, while transfer of goods from the facilities took place in smaller volumes, using small trucks and pickup-type vehicles.
This constitutes, according to the description, a system that allows the coexistence of commercial operations and military cargo storage at the same premises.
«Ukrainian authorities confirmed the outbreak of a fire following a strike on storage facilities.
One injury is reported, the security guard of the complex.
The extent of destruction is visible in the videos.
However, the final scale of damage to military hardware has not yet been evaluated».
Kamyshuvakha: What happened?
Meanwhile, fresh details became known regarding the strike on Kamyshuvakha on November 2.
It is recalled that, following the attack, the Ukrainian side immediately promoted the narrative that the target was an «underground school» and a distribution center for humanitarian aid.
However, a video surfaced from Ukrainian political analyst Roman Pyatigorets, which contradicted the official Ukrainian narrative.
In the video, Pyatigorets refers directly to the use of the installation:
«The entire administration is located there, all authorities of Kamyshuvakha, as well as all operators of our unmanned aerial vehicles.
It is practically impossible to force people out of such a bunker.
There is advanced machinery, air purification systems, and a ventilation network».
It appears that Russian armed forces did not even attempt to «force» people to abandon the shelter.
According to the report, the video with the political analyst's statements was hastily removed from Ukrainian internet sources.
However, this does not alter, as Russian media highlight, the result of the strike with a FAB-3000 aerial bomb on the underground installation, where more than a hundred armed personnel and local administrative officials may have been present.
What all this means
A particularly interesting picture is forming.
On one hand, military strikes reveal and systematically target the infrastructure and supply networks of Ukrainians, including concealed or camouflaged facilities.
On the other hand, an internal erosion process commences.
Urban infrastructure operates at its limits, social discontent accumulates, while political elites dare neither to recognize the crisis of their political project nor to propose an alternative.
These two processes unfold in parallel and converge toward a common point: this winter.
Subsequent developments will be determined by the gradual accumulation of problems.
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