Posted on 04/08/2022 11:04:16 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
When the invasion started in late February, Volzhanin’s parents began frantically trying to arrange travel for their son out of Ukraine. Then, Igor told them he wasn’t leaving.
“I was shocked,” said his father, Sergei Volzhanin, who lives in Ontario.
“It didn’t even seem like there was a moment of hesitation,” remembers his 30-year-old sister, Nina Volzhanina.
Eira told almost no one she’d decided to join the fight. She’s braced for her parents’ reaction when she finally speaks to them. “I don’t have my phone on for a reason,” she said.
Both Volzhanin and Eira signed on at a time when many international observers expected the Russian Federation possessed the military might to make short work of any Ukrainian defense. Volzhanin, who majored in history and politics in college, has struggled to understand the Russian strategy.
Ukraine’s current success repelling Russian forces in the north and around Kyiv hasn’t assuaged his parents’ fears. His mother has become a voracious reader of war-related news. His father texts him “hello” every morning when he wakes up and waits anxiously for a reply. Only once did Volzhanin miss a check-in, triggering a day of anguish back home.
Sergei Volzhanin says his friends in Russia have gone silent, unwilling or unable to publicly acknowledge Putin’s crimes.
“Communism has turned into fascism,” he said Thursday. “This is a war of brother against brother, and it will be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of the last 100 years.”
After the initial shock of Igor’s decision wore off, his father began to consider the magnitude of the war and how his Ukrainian-born son must have felt being in Kyiv when Russia attacked. A few days later, he told Igor he was proud of him: “Do what you think is right, and I will support you.”
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They must have papers recommending them from their previous SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer.
Ukraine ping
Some foreign volunteers communicate daily with their loved ones at home. Others simply say they’re on vacation (presumably not in Ukraine) so as not to worry their relatives and friends.
Fine example of hyperbole.
Meanwhile, would you be so good as to get them another tray of champagne and whores-do-vores?
A communist front newspaper lauding some numbat who thinks Ukraine has jumped to the head of the queue in humanitarian catastrophies since 1922.
This is the commie media line now. Zelenksy said something just as falacious
when many international observers expected the Russian Federation possessed the military might to make short work of any Ukrainian defense.....
Guess we know how that worked out.
NATO says 40K russky casualties 2 weeks ago. Before they fled from Kyiv.
I hear russky women who haven’t heard from their dead? sons, husbands, are inquiring at their bases where they’re turned away.
We expect WaPo to understand patriotism?
I hear russky women who haven’t heard from their dead? sons, husbands, are inquiring at their bases where they’re turned awayThey might want to avoid answering the phone...
Actually, Russia claimed 1300 casualties a week ago with approximately 3500 injured soldiers. Since 40,000 is a lot more than 1300, it shouldn’t be that hard to determine the number of Russian soldiers who were killed. Then we can see who has been telling lies to the world.
Nice try at smearing
But RUSSIA is the new Nazi Germany!!
Russia is the one who kills or jails their political opponents, invades innocent countries, kills innocent people, bombs apartment buildings, etc.
Putin is the new Hitler! Heil Putin!
Hyperbole?
Pard, in my neck of the woods we call that lying.
Hillary already told us that the deep-state wants a long, drawn-out conflict, to occupy and bleed Russia. She tells the truth about the satanic thinking in DC, if you listen to her.
If every drop of blood needs to be squeezed out of Ukraine, its a price they are willing to pay. That’s been the plan all along.
Canadian? Figures..........
Washington Compost?? LOL
you really have to stoop low to find this trash,
If someone is brainwashed and stupid enough to go there ,then i have no sympathy for them.
They did. They chose not to use it except some missile strikes. They could have done many more missile strikes.
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