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"Houses sold to Siberians ": Moscow 's move to Russify Ukraine
May 19, 2022 - Kl 15:40

Many escaped Ukrainians tell of houses and land left by refugees handed over to Russians and Siberians: this is how Moscow wants to Russify the Kherson region before annexation

In Kherson , a possible annexation to Russia seems to have become almost a secondary problem. The real bugbear is given by a possible colonization which, according to the Ukrainians, is already underway. Houses and fields have already been assigned to Russians from various parts of the federation, including from the Far East. On the other hand, many Ukrainians left the region after the arrival of the troops from Moscow.

The Kherson context

In the economy of the Ukrainian conflict, Kherson has a specific peculiarity : it is the first large Ukrainian city to have been conquered by the Russians. The soldiers sent from Moscow finally placed the flag on 3 March. There was resistance at the gates of the city. But in the south of the country the Russians already from the first days of the war showed a certain military superiority, on the contrary instead of what was seen in Kiev and Kharkiv.

"Kherson has fallen". Now she is in the hands of the Russians

So the Ukrainian army had to split on several fronts and had to retreat from Kherson. Its territory, strategic as it is a key entry point to the areas of Ukraine bordering the Black Sea , has not been particularly damaged. There was no urban battle, unlike Mariupol .

"Hundreds of abandoned corpses ". The massacre of the fallen abandoned by Putin
May 19, 2022 - 19:54
The Ukrainian state railway company denounces: "Russia hides the number of dead soldiers and does not bring them back". In a video, the horror of the abandoned bodies

Hundreds of corpses of Russian soldiers who died in the war have been lying in refrigerated wagons for three months. Stacked and locked up in white bags. Abandoned thus, without a proper burial. And Moscow does not claim them: it pretends nothing has happened. The denunciation of Putin's outrage against his men comes from the Ukrainian state railway company, Ukrzaliznytsya. In a video shot by several local newspapers, the Ukrainian public railway transport company showed the havoc that is passing in silence, communicating to Russia that it wants to return those dead to their relatives.

The country of the Tsar - the Ukrainian body denounced - " scrupulously hides the real number of soldiers killed and does not take away the bodies of its citizens ". In the disclosed images you can see the white bags containing the corpses transported by some operators, who place them in a freezer container. A gesture of pity for those "enemy" corpses abandoned to their fateful fate. " In accordance with the rules of humanitarian law, for the third month we have stored hundreds of bodies of Russian soldiers to deliver them to their mothers and wives. We turn to the Russians: we know you are reading this. Your Cargo 200 is waiting for you .", wrote the Ukrainian authorities in a message on Telegram. Cargo 200 is the code name used in Russia to indicate the repatriation of the bodies of those killed in war.


Take your dead soldiers! Ukraine calls on Russia to accept wagons with the dead.

Ukraine, explains the video of the denunciation, " would like to return the dead to Russia and urges the Russians to take their relatives away, but Russia does not request them back to avoid panic and to avoid settling of scores ". Words that now circulate online, driven by the disturbing force of those images. The public company Ukrzaliznytsya - reportedly - had the task of organizing 200 carriages to transport the bodies of Russian soldiers from the stations of Fastov, Odessa, Zastawna, Podliska, Merefa and Zaporizhia. " Our refrigerated wagons are capable of carrying up to 50 tons of cargo, which means that we will be able to transport up to 10 thousand Russian army soldiers occupying Ukraine.", reads a communiqué from the railway line.

According to the Ukrinform agency, according to the latest estimates, about 28.5 thousand Russian soldiers have fallen since the beginning of the war. Figures that Moscow clearly does not confirm. Of the horror of abandoned Russian corpses in Ukraine https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mondo...a-2033118.html , which in recent days had broadcast some testimonies similar to those proposed by the Kiev railways. That havoc, at the time of a war that is also fought with images, has not remained hidden.

Combat rations: this is how Russian and Ukrainian soldiers eat at the front
We tried the food that Moscow and Kiev serve their soldiers

The Russians abandoned in their defeat of Kiev tons of war scrap. Among this material the Ukrainians found many boxes with Russian combat rations. One of them is kindly sent to us from Chernigov to compare it with another Ukrainian one . After two days waiting for the package, we open them to find out how the members of both armies eat at the front. When the Ukrainian soldier hands the Russian ration to the journalist, she pouts:

- Are you really going to eat it? If you have to and it makes you sick, I have pills to make you throw up later.

We will try to be somewhat more objective than Private Potapova. Let's go to the measurable: both rations weigh just over two kilos each. They carry, one in a cardboard box and the other in a bag, everything they need to eat for a whole day. During the first days of the invasion a lot of Russian rations expired from 2015 were found and they recorded it on video, something that the Ukrainians made fun of, so we checked that if we are going to try this, at least it is edible and yes, both They are.

Both have a load of 3,500 calories , that is, the estimate for an infantryman on a mission. There are other rations for aviation pilots, for example, whose caloric load is lower, but these are like the majority that both armies eat here. But so far what they have in common, because as soon as we open the box and the bag, the differences begin.

The Russian box is heir to the Soviet combat ration . In the same pack he carries food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it is the soldier who carries and manages it. The Ukrainian ration has an advantage: inside the main bag there are three smaller ones for each of these three meals and with the name clearly indicated. If the Ukrainian soldier travels for a few hours to do a mission, he does not have to carry the weight of the whole package, but with the food that he will need.

Russian food is packed in cans, while Ukrainian food uses plastic bags. In both cases the menu is written on the front: we read, with the help of Viktor, our translator: "Beef meatballs", "Beef with peas", "Rice with beef"... All the main meals have meat .

Another difference, this one in favor of the Russian team, is that it contains three water purification tablets and has a small portable stove with tablets to heat food and practical windproof matches. Many soldiers make the mistake of heating straight from the can, when in fact they recommend pouring the contents into the soldier's metal pot and adding a little water to make it taste better. The Ukrainian formula doesn't need water and doesn't seem as dry.

Another advantage of the Ukrainian ration is that the food seems less divided into jars. While the Russian has a multitude of sauces, sachets and cans, the Ukrainian food is one, already prepared and without additives, which allows eating in less time, something vital on the battlefield .

It's a shame not to be able to count on a prestigious chef, such as José Andrés, present in Kiev with his NGO until very recently, to assess flavours, but the time has come to open the food. We start with Ukrainian food - "Lentils with meat". You expect it to taste like airline food, but it doesn't. It tastes worse, or rather, it doesn't know. It's a bit of a heavy purée. Imagine that war makes you very hungry and that, under certain circumstances, this ration can taste better than a menu in a three-star Michelin restaurant.

When the Russians tried to invade Ukraine on February 24 , they only brought three days' worth of rations like these. When they saw that the offensive was not going to be as lightning as they thought, they began to loot stores, farms and private houses in search of something that would satisfy their hunger. Now let's try his portion: "Veal with rice," he says on the can. After a spoonful of this pseudo-food, one has to spit it out. This one is bad and the palate keeps the memory, minutes after its texture. We open another can, this one of "Beef with Peas". Very bad taste again. Soldiers can die in combat. Perhaps they deserve better food than this heavy paste provided by Moscow.

The two food packages contain three spoons (breakfast, lunch and dinner) , as well as three napkins and several packages of hard biscuits. The Russian has something that is sure to be a delicatessen somewhere else but not in a trench: a terrine that has some kind of pieces of ham preserved in fat. The taste of it is not bad at all, but it is so salty that the soldier can drink all the water in his canteen to quench his thirst.

We continue with a Ukrainian style "Chicken with carrots" kept in the bag marked "dinner". It won't win any culinary awards and it deserves a scolding on Chicote's show, but it far exceeds the quality of Russian combat food. To get rid of the bad taste in your mouth of the food provided by the Kremlin, you have to resort to its chocolate, which is surprisingly good . He also carries an envelope with 10 candies and other sweets.

A Ukrainian veteran of the Soviet war against Afghanistan , who spent three years eating cans like these, assures EL MUNDO that the poor quality of Russian food "has to do with corruption. They put in cheap, third-class food , because someone carry the money along the way. It's dog food for cannon fodder."

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