Haya ndio maisha halisi ya wanajeshi was Ukraine.
Kwa wale mliokimbia umande ni kwamba raia was Ukraine wanalazimishwa kupigana vita Hulu wakitishiwa kuwa atakae kataa wazazi wake watauliwa.
Kwa kifupi wanajeshi was Ukraine Wana Hali mbaya,
AUkrainian serviceman who went from working in a museum to fighting on the front line, has described the conditions he and his comrades are enduring and made an impassioned plea for further Western support for Kyiv against Russia.AUkrainian serviceman who went from working in a museum to fighting on the front line, has described the conditions he and his comrades are enduring and made an impassioned plea for further Western support for Kyiv against Russia.
"I am not a military man. I never aspired to be in the military," started the letter signed by Nazar Razlutsky and published on the independent outlet Ukraine Frontlines.
He said that with a Ph.D. in history, he used to spend his time researching history and writing about science, even turning his hand to fiction. "But lately I've been in the military because there's a war in my country."
He then details the frontline conditions now faced by his fellow Ukrainians who used to work as historians, accountants, bankers, IT workers and those from "other peaceful professions.
"We sleep on crates in unbelievable cramped conditions in the backs of trucks, and wash in warm water once a month," wrote Razlutsky, who is serving as a junior sergeant. "When it rains—we're wet, when it swamps—we're dirty as hell," he said.
He described how his compatriots fighting are being killed by missiles, bullets, cluster and phosphorus munitions. "Some of them are already dead. And some will never go back to their specialty, because they are burned out.
"But all of them continue to fight. Because Ukraine is behind them. For if they lay down their arms, their parents will be killed, their wives and daughters raped, and their homes destroyed or confiscated."
"When politicians from France, Italy, Germany and other countries suggest that we lay down arms, agree to the loss of territories, give Russia some security guarantees...I feel rage and deep disgust."
"We don't need offers to surrender," he wrote, taking aim at suggestions to negotiate for peace before Russian troops are fully driven out of Ukraine. "If you are not ready to fight with us against an enraged enemy, then help us with weapons, money, sanctions."