‘Please don’t use my name’ A report by journalist Shura Burtin on the growing war weariness among Ukrainians
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/27/please-don-t-use-my-name

When I ask Danylo if he’s afraid of being prosecuted for desertion, he says, “Fuck it. I’d rather do time than get killed because some idiot gave a bullshit order.” Evidently, after experiencing combat, the threat of a criminal charge seems laughable.

I ask about his family’s reaction:

My mom’s in goddamn Russia. We talk on the phone. She knows I went AWOL. She worries, of course, but she’s a vatnik [invasion supporter], so we don’t get into that stuff. I tried talking to her at first, but she just shrugged and said, “I don’t follow politics.” You know — typical Russki stuff. And she’s still working her shift at the Uralvagonzavod factory, cranking out tanks.

The image stays with me: a mom who worries about her son while building the tanks that will hunt him.

这就是内战,再荒谬不过了,想到两岸都有傻逼期待这一幕在两岸上演,更荒谬了.