A year ago, on March 2, 2022, the Russians stepped in Kherson. We stayed there for eight months. “In these eight months we lost a piece of humanity,” says Di’s man today Irina Kabycheva. He says it with resignation, but without regret. For example, his wife, a homemaker, 42, mother of their only son Timur, has turned into a frighteningly effective spy. Thanks to his information, which he transmitted in encrypted form while walking with the boy, Ukrainian forces were able to bomb the hotels, which the Russians turned into headquarters. kill dozens of them.
THE INFORMATION
During those eight months she also became a kind of Mata Hari Anastasia Burlak, 33 years old, beautiful oval face, tattoos, bartender: behind the counter of his restaurant, he served scotch and cocktails to the enemy, meanwhile he passed information to his 28-year-old friend Nedostup, who was an old-life hipster with a degree in sociology , employed in a factory that makes spare parts for cars: In those eight months he learned how to kill (“I did a Google search,” he said in an interview a few weeks ago) and slaughtered several Russian soldiers , most of them they came out of Anastasia’s pizza bar drunk. Like Irina’s husband (he prefers not to give his name), neither Anastasia nor Nedostup nor anyone else regrets that lost humanity that turned boys, girls, housewives, fathers of families, rockers or taxi drivers overnight into spies, murderers and spies.
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Accordingly Born, the dead among Ukrainian soldiers since the beginning of the conflict are 200 thousand. Kherson was the main city that fell into enemy hands and was then liberated. Today, everyone says, the streets are silent, although the Ukrainian flags are flying again. Many have gone and not returned. Bombs dropped almost indiscriminately by the Russians over the Dnieper. Anastasia found the courage to tell her story to the British Telegraph. The photo shows her radiant, beautiful. Prettier than the photos from before, when she looked younger, more frightened, but more “normal”. Those eight months of becoming someone else put her in a series of nervous spasms that won’t go away. He earned them in the field, messaging via Instagram, getting all information by staying behind the counter, serving the enemy, spying on their uniforms, ranks, trying to steal names, information on their housing.
She had also come up with a codename, “Negroni,” to use in case she got caught. Nedostup would have known that he had to erase everything, throw away the phone, disappear. “Luckily, I never had to use it,” says Anastasia. “I remember the first time the Russians entered the room, my hands were shaking as I served them, how scared I was,” she told the Telegraph: “But I was also angry: how dared they take our.” to occupy land, to decide for us ? I submitted all the information I could get: how many soldiers there were, how many vehicles and all the details I could learn about the commanders».
THE BUSY CITY
Those of Kherson who stayed learned almost immediately to live in an occupied city. And many have chosen to join the resistance. Almost everyone has learned to send encrypted messages, hiding them between photos of their children and cats on social networks. To memorize the details that could be useful to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. One of Irina’s tips was to destroy the Ninel, a downtown hotel where the command of the Russian armed forces was based. She had seen that the Don Marco restaurant had also become a headquarters, but the Ukrainians spared it: they would have risked massacring civilians as well. Mykhaylo, (nom de guerre), 30, also became a whistleblower in no time: he continued to drive a taxi in the occupied city, giving real-time updates on the whereabouts of Russian forces. “The targets – he said – were destroyed within twenty minutes of my indicating them.”
The popular @Maneken007 (model 007, so on Instagram), born Oksana Voloshchuk, 30, influencer and blogger, would have done the double game as well. She had ended up on the blacklist of Myrotvorets, the site controlled by the Ukrainian services that publishes the first and last names of citizens considered “enemies of the fatherland” (many of whom were killed): according to the services, Maneken was on it paid the Russians and had supported the annexation of Crimea. However, last October he received an award from the head of the Ukrainian secret service Budanov for “merits to cooperation with the military police”.
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