Thread by @rshereme

“I would like this text to be reposted, copied and translated into different languages. Report it to foreigners and their politicians.

I am not a military man. I never aspired to be a soldier. I am a PhD historian, researcher, museum worker, and a bit of a writer.

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2/ I devote my time to researching history, writing scientific and popular science works. And also - art books. But lately I've been in the military. Because there is a war in my country.

3/ We engage in artillery duels every day, in which one successful enemy projectile will turn us into mincemeat.

4/ We sleep in bags on crates in incredibly cramped conditions, and we wash in warm water once a month. When it rains, we are wet, when it's swampy, we are dirty as hell.

5/ We wash once a month, let me remind you, and it's not a fact that there will be such an opportunity next month. And when it was cold, my brothers used to freeze their fingers.

6/ We eat when there is a free moment, not when it is time to eat or when we have an appetite. We sleep so irregularly that I don't know if I'll ever be able to go back to my standard 11pm to 7am schedule.

7/ At the same time, we are a priority target for the enemy. And they can try to destroy us in various ways and at any moment.

8/ And thousands of historians, writers, accountants, bank employees, IT specialists, teachers, designers and other completely peaceful professions are currently in similar conditions, if not worse.

9/ They are being killed from the 152nd and from Points-U, bullets and VOGs, cluster and phosphorous ammunition are flying at them. Some of them have already died. And someone will never return to their profession because they are burned out. But they all continue to fight.

10/ And when the politicians of France, Italy, Germany and other countries offer us to lay down arms, accept the loss of territories, provide Russia with some security guarantees. Absurd!

11/ Russia does not need any security guarantees, it is its neighbors who need guarantees against threats from their side. Even the complete capitulation of Ukraine will not solve the problem of world security.

12/ We don't need offers to surrender. If you are not ready to fight with us against a maddened enemy, then help us with weapons, money, sanctions. We need a lot of things to defeat Russia and thus drastically reduce the level of the global crisis.

13/ But we have the main thing - motivation. We have historians who are ready to sleep on boxes, five people on two beds, stay in mud for weeks without being able to wash.

14/ We have accountants who are ready to eat only porridge and stew for months. We have young students who spend their best years under the threat of death.”

15/ Sincerely,
PhD historian, writer, author of six books, currently a junior sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Nazar Rozlutsky