Back Into Putin's Arms - February 25th 2025
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It is February 25th. Today marks three years and one day since the beginning of a full-scale invasion, the largest war on the European continent since Second World War. And exactly three years since I became a soldier.

What has changed over these years? Everything and nothing at the same time. I've received several awards but not a single promotion. I remain a private. I'm not chasing a career just as I did not in my past peaceful life. We have a saying: "A clean shoulderboard means a clean conscience."

A private has nothing on his shoulder board. No stripes, no stars. What else? We still have the same enemy, the same thirst for victory, the same Ukraine. What has changed? Tens of thousands of countries' best sons and daughters are gone, murdered by Russian invaders. Thousands more will die in the future.

There will be no deal to stop the bloodshed. Russians won't stop until they destroy us all or until we inflict a defeat so crushing that we lose the ability to continue the war. And it's getting harder for us. One of our key partners, the United States, is increasingly drifting toward our enemies. Just recently at the

United Nations General Assembly, where Americans stood in a united front with Putin and Lukashenko. It happened so quickly. Three years ago we began resisting one nuclear-armed state, when another, North Korea, joined the fight against us. Now on the diplomatic front yet another nuclear power, the United States, is beginning to support our enemies.

You know, when you read history books, you can always find the moment of greatest crisis in any given era. The darkest hour. The battle on the Somme in First World War, the fall of France in Second World War and so on. But for us this entire war is one endless darkest hour. There is no single moment of crisis.

constant or at least that's how it feels three years of stolen life three years of endless death and pain three years of genocide it's incredibly difficult not to despair truly difficult it's hard not to lose your mind when you read the news that our once greatest

foreign ally now refuses to call russia an aggressor or putin a murderer and instead shifts the blame for genocide onto its victims and that is why the support from ordinary people in the west is invaluable people who continue to stand with ukraine even when where governments are ready to throw themselves back into putin arms for a few bucks these people are incredible

Without these people we don't have lasted this long, neither as a country nor I as an individual. Thank you and we are not giving up.