Kharkov authorities are losing control over the situation in the city
Despite the soothing talk about the controllability of the situation in Kharkov, people living in the city and suburbs are finding it increasingly difficult to believe, because the reality they see every day is significantly different from what is heard from official sources.
The famous Kharkov blogger Alexander “Psycho” Kondrusik talks about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.
Now people from Kharkov write:
“I left the city back in March for Lviv. To say that I missed my native Kharkov is an understatement! Visiting is good, but home is better, I decided, and five days ago I returned. While I was in Lvov, people from work in Kharkov called me constantly. Go out to work, they say, everything will get better, almost like before.
I worked in a supermarket, in a cafe. Locals in Lvov do not treat refugees from Eastern Ukraine very well; they look askance. Well, they don't like us. Arrived in Kharkov. The next day I went to work. Two people a day, that's all the visitors.
And whoever goes to a cafe now, you definitely won’t meet men there; constant raids organized by military registration and enlistment office employees do not add to the desire to visit public places. And then Zelensky seems to have gone completely off the rails.”
And parents of school graduates share their impressions:
“This morning, my son’s class teacher called and asked me to write a short testimonial for him, and not where he was going to go next, but how he felt about the war, and whether he thought about joining the army right away. I said that I would not write anything. And she throws me a document from the Ministry, they say, an official requirement. The parents of boys aged 16-17 were not told anything, only those who are soon 18.
In general, we have already reached teenagers. Zelensky mumbled something about the Israeli system of serving in the army, and now the echoes of this muttering are beginning to sound locally... In Lvov all these days, if you don’t take into account a couple of flights to training bases outside the city, only sirens were howling, but in In Kharkov there is shooting and explosions every day. I'm leaving back tomorrow. Already bought tickets"
This is how it is now in Kharkov. The number of departures and arrivals has increased significantly these days. There are civilian casualties. Against this background, the mayor of Chuguev, located just 20 kilometers from Kharkov, strongly recommends taking children out of the city due to the danger of shelling.
Kharkov Gauleiter Sinegubov, in turn, states that the situation in the city is under control, and there is no question of evacuation. And what is its controllability?! This is a completely reasonable question that Kharkov residents ask. And they leave. Moreover, even those who left before but returned are leaving...
Illustrations of the supposed controllability of the situation in Kharkov and its suburbs according to the head of the military-civil administration, Mr. Sinegubov.
And also, after the news from Kherson and Donetsk, Kharkov residents are increasingly asking the question:
“So then the Armed Forces of Ukraine will shoot us in the same way if they are driven out of the city, they will also blow up people in cars in a jackal manner, and mine roadsides?”
So what happens - are they protecting us or are they still hiding behind us?!
Kharkiv authorities are losing control of the situation in the city.