Posted on 02/27/2022 9:29:52 PM PST by Zhang Fei
KHARKIV – The dead Russian soldier’s body was still lying there in the snow where it had been on Friday. The Ukrainian soldiers hadn’t moved it, because of sloth or rage or simple preoccupation with the enemy army doing its best to put them in the same pose, spread-eagled on their backs surrounded by an aura of blood.
This afternoon the fighting was still all outside of the city. We came across the body at a four-way junction with Kharkiv’s ring road on Saturday, arriving at a Ukrainian army position with very little warning shortly after passing a line of civilians waiting to buy food at a grocery store. The road is littered with destroyed vehicles — three burnt-out Russian BTR troop transports, a scuttled Ukrainian KOZAK, the decapitated turret of a tank. The body is of a Russian soldier who tried to break through the Ukrainian lines outside of the city of Kharkiv yesterday and failed. Shortly afterward Tyler Hicks of the New York Times came along and photographed it while it was covered in snow. Now, the snow has melted, exposing the body, but it’s the same one. The soldiers say there are two more in the houses nearby. Before we can look we hear thumps of artillery and have to jump into a trench, sinking up to our ankles in thick, clinging mud. The dirt in Ukraine is the softest and blackest I have ever seen, creating a pure chocolate brown mud when diluted with water or melted snow.
The war in Ukraine has been going on for three full days now. There was Thursday when the first missiles struck and then Friday, when the fear started to set in, and now Saturday. In Kyiv on Saturday civilians marked with bright strips of yellow tape
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Just curious. Was it sloth or rage that prevented HIM from burying the soldier?
Surprisingly light on info, but with a 24-hour curfew, that’s no surprise.
They managed to write a whole lot about very little.
I wonder what his article would have been like if he were reporting form Gettysburg or Normandy. For some reason this guys impressions of war mean nothing to me. YMMV.
Just curious. Was it sloth or rage that prevented HIM from burying the soldier?
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Frozen ground? Artillery fire?
Interesting that this city of 1.5 million has a number of universities and 300,000 students trying to go home, many from foreign countries. How much anti Russian feeling does this promise for the long term future as these students become their countries’ leaders?
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