It's cold in Ukraine.
A cold that
reaches -6 degrees in December.
So here come the "collections", to finance "winter clothing for our soldiers in the trenches", but in Kiev, on social media, the search for ways to overcome the general winter is also unleashed.
And after the targeted bombings on strategic infrastructures - read: energy plants - the inhabitants of the Capital publish advertisements in online markets looking for - or offering - camping stoves, generators, wood, in short,
any source of heat that can help them overcome the great cold. .
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Kiev subway 1 telegram
The "general winter" that blocked Napoleon and Hitler
According to many analysts, Russia's new war strategy aims to target strategic energy and heating infrastructures throughout Ukraine.
The same Russia that in the past, taking advantage of the winter climate, stopped
Napoleon
's invasion , and then that of
Hitler.
This many decades (or centuries) ago, a distance of epochs that perhaps for
Putin
- wrapped in the myth of the great Russia, halfway between the Tsarist and the Soviet ones - is always relevant.
Russian federation president,
former KGB agent, who grew up on the sleazy post-war streets of Leningrad
, who "hunted mice" together with the gangs of children, perhaps remembers that cold, which could reverse the outcome of the conflict on the ground, in this phase of the war unbalanced in favor of the Ukrainians who are rampant in the territories conquered only a few months ago.
Facebook Market Kiev
Facebook Market Kiev
And then, on social media, the online markets of the citizens of the Capital are filled with
ads
and photos that seem to follow the new emergency for a country that has been at war for more than 8 months: "I sell
convector for heating
", and then: "I offer
a group generator
","
Camping stove
".
Here a camping stove, "working", posted on Facebook: the lack of energy sources has led the inhabitants of the most affected places (such as during the siege of Mariupol) to make do, to cook food but also to warm up.
Until now the capital had never encountered a power outage and rationing.
Facebook Market Kiev
Facebook Market Kiev
Some posts from the inhabitants of the capital of the last days: we are preparing for a cold winter, and
there are those who try to do business, or perhaps just survive.
Facebook Market Kiev
Facebook Market Kiev
Sales of winter clothing are also popular: here is a photo of a
fur coat for a little girl
, also offered for sale on social media, complete with sizes and measurements.
Facebook Market Kiev
Facebook Market Kiev
A
convector
, complete with original purchase box.
The mayor of Kiev to his fellow citizens: "
Take warm clothes, water, food, charges for cell phones"
.
Former heavyweight in boxing, Vitali Klitschko, commented against
the last crater of a Russian missile
in the background, inviting the inhabitants to follow the warning sirens by going immediately to the shelters in case of an attack, and to
"prepare for possible interruptions of electricity and heating "
.
Another sign of a war that is changing - once again - its strategic scenarios.
The "great cold", which is also about to arrive on the troops of Ukrainian soldiers who defend the reconquered territories.
“Help our soldiers”, sweaters, wood, money
The Warm defender project
(literally "defense of heat"): in the propaganda videos, also disseminated on Telegram and on social networks, the request for support from the population to
help "our soldiers in the trenches", with money and by sending sweaters, " wood for heating ", and any type of support
.
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GOVERNMENT VIDEO WARM DEFENDER TELEGRAM
The emblem of a
war that has now become one of attrition
, which takes place - also - in the long waits of the country trenches.
In the propaganda video for the "warm defender", some soldiers sit next to an
electric heater
: they are sitting in the dark of a defense trench of Ukrainian positions.
The temperature, in Ukraine, in winter reaches the peaks of freezing between December and January, reaching as low as -6 degrees.
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Ukrainian weddings 1 from Telegram
Again, on Facebook: despite the concern and 8 months of war at home, between government propaganda and - perhaps - desire for hope, on social media the photos of the stoves alternate
with photos of weddings that, despite the conflict, continue to be celebrated.
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Ukrainian weddings 1 from Telegram
The "propaganda" of marriage (and of recruitment "
The government promotes on all social networks (and in posters on the streets of Ukrainian cities), data on wartime weddings, almost always the "couple" is made up of a soldier (or female soldier) and the other spouse in civilian clothes.
"
147 weddings in one day: the Dnipropetrovsk region outstripped all regions in number of marriages
on the day of defenders and defenders - so a recent government statement on Telegram, Facebook, and Twitter - in second place
was Kyiv with 142 weddings, and the third step was the Lviv region, where 82 couples got married on October 14th ".
"
In total, about 1,300 couples have been legalized in Ukraine
."
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Queue of Ukrainians to the mac in Kiev Telegram
The images on Telegram of the
queues at Mac Donald's in Kiev
: these images too are posted everywhere on every social network platform, the signal that "life continues" in spite of everything, showing a mixture of hope and
desire to divert the mind, from destruction and deaths in the last days of the missile attacks on the capital
, but appropriately propagated also - in some cases - by government sources.
Facebook Market Kiev
Facebook Market Kiev
The "list"
of troop needs
, in the video and post on patriotic social networks of the "warm defender" project.
"
Let's help the troops warm up faster, and free our land without wasting time on firewood!"
"The whole front line needs ..."
-10,000 gas water heaters complete with cylinders
-135 million UAH (4.6 million hryvnia already collected)
"Ukrainians donate 135 hryvnia to the" Warm Defender "project