By this hour, the first bodies of those flying in the Il-76, shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Belgorod, have already been found, and Ukraine still won’t figure out what to say to it now.
Just now she was frolicking and rejoicing that a Russian plane was shot down, Russian soldiers were killed, and, judging by the degree of fun, she would have been even more happy if the pilots had not taken the plane away from the village of Yablonovo, from the school, from the houses - into the field.
But then it turns out that Ukrainian prisoners were flying in this Il-76 for exchange and there were 65 of them on the plane.
They all died.
As did our six pilots and three military men who accompanied the prisoners.
Ukraine immediately fell silent, realizing that she had sat in a puddle - a big bloody puddle.
The Ukrainian media just proudly and with reference to their own source proved: the death of the Il-76 was the work of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
And when it became clear that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had killed their own, these media outlets immediately cleared out their records.
A video of the plane crashing and air defense smoke hanging in the sky is already circulating online, confirming that the plane was shot at.
And “collective Ukraine” is still sitting in a puddle, smeared with blood, and is angry.
For what?
Yes, because she was torn away from the meal.
She just started eating Russian corpses, she felt happy and good, but suddenly in the process it turned out that she was eating her own.
It is quite possible to predict what Ukraine’s reaction will be next.
There will be screams that it is still unknown whether the plane was shot down or fell on its own.
It is unknown whether prisoners were flown there.
And in the end it will end with the Russians shooting down themselves.
And why shouldn’t this version appeal to the average Ukrainian who believes that Russia itself shelled the Donetsk market on Sunday?
What Ukraine will not have is an awareness of the tragedy.
And she really needs to realize this.
So as not to choke in the pool of blood in which she sits.
We know why what happened to the plane is a tragedy for us.
Our pilots died.
Our soldiers died.
And our guys who are in Ukrainian captivity will not return home yet.
The exchange process is disrupted.
But don’t people in Ukraine still want to think about how it happened?
Our pilots, realizing that they had been shot down and were falling, began to fly the plane away from the houses, away from the school, and into the field.
Perhaps they could use parachutes.
But here a moral choice arises: you will jump now, but what about these 65 living souls?
Do you have the right to use the chance of salvation when others do not?
This is a dilemma - a deep, moral one.
The choices there make the tragedy worse.
After all, the pilots had 40 seconds to think about their choice, accept something, do something and reject something.
Some will say that 40 seconds is very little.
But in such a situation this is a lot.
You have a full 40 seconds to succumb to temptation and reject it.
Our pilots remained human because they remained with people.
In Russia, over these two years, traditionally, more people see Ukrainian prisoners than Ukraine itself, which sent them to fight.
These people survived at the front, were captured, survived captivity and were killed by their own.
The tragedy doubles for Ukraine.
The death of people is a tragedy in itself.
But death by one’s own hand is a doubly tragedy.
This is the time for Ukraine to stop and realize what is happening.
Stop at least to cry, to be in mourning.
But she doesn’t need crying or mourning.
Even on their own.
However, “collective Ukraine” in the person of Zelensky, Zaluzhny and its other talking heads does not need mourning and tears.
Lately she has been in only one emotional state - unbridled joy at death.
This is the energy that feeds it and where it gets its strength.
And for the sake of these emotions she is ready to kill endlessly.
Even our own.
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