Zelensky: 55 diplomatic missions have resumed work in Kyiv. In his evening video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky highlighted the importance of maintaining embassadorial services during the war and said that 55 embassies have already resumed their work.
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Soldier recovers in hospital, commander hides his absence
22/ He was sent to a military hospital where he spent a week recovering. While there, he found that his company commander had attempted to cover up his stay in the hospital, presumably to avoid awkward questions about why so many of the unit's members fell sick at once.
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Crimean target practice in extreme heat, extended to all night
15/ Finally, at 13:00, the target practice got underway in searing midsummer Crimean temperatures. "The heat is 50+, there is no water, we initially drove until lunch, now it turns out that we are here for the whole day, plus night shooting [until] one o'clock in the morning".
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Filatyev’s unhappy paratrooper training in Crimea before the war
5/ In this first installment, I'll cover FIlatyev's experiences in the six months before the war, when he was going through training as a paratrooper in Crimea with the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment. It was not a happy experience for him.
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Russian soldier Filatyev’s detailed Ukraine war account summary
4/ I've previously covered Russian soldiers' accounts of their experiences in Ukraine (see below), but Filatyev's is by far the longest and most detailed yet published. No full English translation yet exists AFAIK, so I'll summarise various points here.
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Filatyev writes scathing memoir ‘ZOV’ and flees Russia
3/ While recuperating, Filatyev wrote a scathing 141-page memoir titled 'ZOV' (after the recognition symbols painted on vehicles of the invasion force) and published it on VKontakte (Russian Facebook). Not surprisingly, he's now been forced to flee Russia for his own safety.
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Russian ex-paratrooper recounts Ukraine war
At 34, Pavel Filatyev, a former Russian paratrooper, has published a detailed firsthand account of his experiences in the Ukraine war. He served with the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment based in Feodosia and fought in southern Ukraine for two months. A transcript follows.
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Filatyev’s disillusionment after Kherson capture
2/ Filatyev was part of the force that captured Kherson in February and was hospitalised with an eye injury after spending more than a month under heavy Ukrainian artillery bombardment near Mykolaiv. By that time, he was completely disillusioned with the war.
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Reznikov: Ukrainian Armed Forces must surpass occupiers in quality, skill, and strikes
As Reznikov stated, the Ukrainian Armed Forces must surpass the Russian occupiers in the quality of force and means application, in skill, and in striking.
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Latvia Raises €300K for Bayraktar in One Day
In Latvia, €300,000 was raised in a single day for a 'Bayraktar' drone to support the Armed Forces, according to Latvian musician Ralfs Eilands, one of the campaign's organizers. https://ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3552323-u-latvii-na-bayraktar-dla-zsu-za-dobu-zibrali-300-tisac.html