I talked yesterday with the DPR stormtroopers, and they said that the old people from Maryinka came to them: they got through to relatives in Ukraine, those - to relatives in Donetsk, and they already got to the military who worked on Maryinka.

The old people reported: they are there, they are alive, they are sitting in the basements, they want to live.

“And the people of Donetsk ask us: “Why don’t you wipe out this Marinka, they are firing at us from there,” the attack aircraft said in their hearts.

— And how to choose?

Where is the finger that will not hurt to cut off?

They said that the Donetsk people, who are dying from the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine coming from Marinka, are a living finger for them.

And the old people who will have to be wiped off the face of the earth along with Maryinka - the other finger of the same hand.

And no matter how you cut it, the hand will hurt equally badly.

- And if you knew that those old people are not for Russia?

I asked.

“Well, what difference does it make to us?

they asked.

And then we talked about the goals with which Russia came to Ukraine, and that these goals do not include the destruction of civilians.

In February, it will be a year since a special military operation is going on, but only now, once again talking with these attack aircraft, I finally understood for myself, using this vivid Maryinsky example, how the NWO is still different from the war and why Russia, despite everything requests to call things and phenomena by their proper names, and did not call what is happening in our republics and in Ukraine a war.

But because the war with all its heavy, wall-mounted fire cannot be waged where you have your “fingers”.

There you can only conduct SVO - with stops, slips, waste and returns.

With movement - centimeter by centimeter to get around the "finger".

“This is how we think,” one of the stormtroopers said angrily.

- It hurts there, it hurts here, we are trying to find a middle ground, but there is none.

But if you stop looking for it, it will no longer be a victory.

Who needs such a victory?

The end of the year is the time to take stock.

And the NWO is not yet in sight of the end, and in this we cannot sum up our main result.

In February and March, we expected a quick victory.

We wanted everything to go fast and cool.

But this did not happen, and perhaps in order for us to finally understand: what we wanted then is not a victory.

There is no victory without personal sacrifice.

Whenever Russia swooped in, marched at lightning speed, stepping on the “fingers”, crushing the military and civilians indiscriminately, it would not win, even if it entered the destroyed Kyiv and stuck the Russian flag on the ashes of the Verkhovna Rada.

In order for this flag to be picked up, healthy fingers are needed - people who need to be saved.

Who will be able to come out of the cellars and say: “We were waiting for you!”

In many ways, this is why Russia has been and is moving slowly, bleeding Donetsk, Gorlovka, Belgorod, losing the best pieces of its flesh on the go - its military, looking for a middle ground.

Knowing that she is not, but not giving up on her search anyway.

And with every step she approaches the understanding of victory: there is no real victory without personal sacrifice.

It does not happen when you forget about the old people who also want to live.

Without sacrifice and without memory, all this is not a victory, but simply a rout.

And the one who understands this has already won, and the one who doesn't has already lost.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.