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Learns about salt mines
Balhmut may be Russia-connected doesn’t mean they’re pro Russian, he met only one
Asked to give a speech at opening
Makes friends: election observer and former bartender from Artemisk that invites him for drinks and beer walks, a Russian teacher that disappeared and looked down on Ukrainians, and Ukrainian nationalist who visits Svoboda meetings
— May 16, 2026 12:03PM
Balhmut may be Russia-connected doesn’t mean they’re pro Russian, he met only one
Asked to give a speech at opening
Makes friends: election observer and former bartender from Artemisk that invites him for drinks and beer walks, a Russian teacher that disappeared and looked down on Ukrainians, and Ukrainian nationalist who visits Svoboda meetings
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Nice how he gets closer with his neighbors
, and of course with a girlfriend in US gets lots of questions why not married and why not a Ukrainian girlfriend by babushkas.
— May 16, 2026 10:38AM
, and of course with a girlfriend in US gets lots of questions why not married and why not a Ukrainian girlfriend by babushkas.
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Part 1
From Portland, wrote about beers and music.
25 feels it’s time for a change.
Peace corps, wanted sub Saharan Africa and got Ukraine, specifically bakhmut / artemivsk. I don’t like his descriptions of not knowing anything about Ukraine basically, and he didn’t like the train ride and didn’t drink the tea.
— May 16, 2026 10:12AM
From Portland, wrote about beers and music.
25 feels it’s time for a change.
Peace corps, wanted sub Saharan Africa and got Ukraine, specifically bakhmut / artemivsk. I don’t like his descriptions of not knowing anything about Ukraine basically, and he didn’t like the train ride and didn’t drink the tea.
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Prologue: in Kramatorsk when being attacked, want to go to Kyiv as that’s the big story (center of power attacked).
— May 16, 2026 09:36AM
