Katherine Leleiko’s Reviews > Defence Intelligence of Ukraine: In the air, at sea, on the ground > Status Update

“Russian military pilots—the officers who take combat positions in long-range and strategic aircraft, and in the Tu-95 there are as many as seven of them—are real war criminals. They may not see with their own eyes, but they fully understand with their minds the death, grief, and destruction their missiles bring. For people like them, there are special places in hell.”

“It’s precisely what the enemy considers impossible that usually works—because the enemy isn’t prepared for such audacity, such determination, for the fact that we’re capable of doing it.”

“It’s a very unpleasant feeling when people greet you but look at you as if you’re a doomed man,” — helicopter pilot, crew commander.

“Then our food ran out too, but we still had sweets, so we had to survive on chocolate alone — I even remember the guys making soup out of Snickers bars. When I was wounded and taken to the hospital, it became clear that the food crisis was so bad that in the bunker where I was lying with the other wounded — a space meant for sixty people — we were fed only once a day.”

Fcking hell

“Sapiens dominabitur astris” — The wise will rule over the stars.