I'm alive, although according to all the laws of physics and probability I should have died. The positions, unfortunately, have been lost. Now I'm in the hospital with a concussion.

Soon I will ask you for help again, since in material terms our unit has lost a lot.

Heavy fighting in the Ocheretyne area.
Once upon a time I was going to run from Kyiv to Lisbon with a backpack of 20 kg: it seems that this race began for me in Donbas.

The entire Russian military industry is trying to kill us.
And we, damn it, are still alive.

Somewhere near Ocheretyne...

The problem with KAB is that they turn a brick basement into a tent in the wind if they fall far. If it's close, you lose your hearing. If a bomb falls nearby, you die, no matter where you are hiding.
This is depressing psychologically, as you are constantly waiting for death.

In the last hour - 4 KABs.

The era of cats is over: now instead of them there are FABs, KABs and rain.

Very happy to share the news that Stanislav Aseyev’s (Stanislav Aseyev) ‘The Torture Camp on Paradise Street,’ translated by Zenia Tompkins and Nina Murray, and published by us at HURI Harvard, has made the shortlist of PEN America’s Translation Prize!

Congratulations to the

The Russians increased pressure at the front to advance as far as possible before help arrived from the United States.

Frontline sky and the cats.

The cats received a double portion of pate in honor of American aid.

Stanislav Aseyev, a former RFE/RL contributor, was held captive by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region for 2 1/2 years. After being freed in a prisoner swap, he returned to writing and launched a foundation to investigate war crimes. But Aseyev decided he could

Alexandr Nevzorov is one of the best antidotes to the 'Russian world' ('русский мир'), because he himself was its bearer.
Last summer, in correspondence, I sent him “The Torture Camp on Paradise Street” (in Russian) to add to his collection of artifacts about Russian fascism.

I tell the cats that if within two/three weeks we do not receive air defense systems and shells, then the Russians can feed them:)

Donbas...

There look like the heroes of our battalion, who for two weeks, completely surrounded by enemies, held their positions on Pervomaisky (see video with the flag below).
Now they are all safe and, I hope, will be nominated for state awards.

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We thank Razom for Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the car for our brigade.

The soldiers of our company returned today after the battles to our deployment point, - some of them literally turned grey, although we are the same age.

The guys from our battalion are holding most of the last buildings in Pervomaisky - one of the areas of the Russian offensive.
Seeing our drone, they show the Ukrainian flag:

It's an honor for me, PEN America

By the way, 'The Torture Camp on Paradise Street' will be published in the Czech Republic by Grada publishing house, for which I am grateful to Ян Kravčík 🇺🇦.
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