Egyptian darkness in Kyiv. Dark night, only grenades flying through the yards...
In the evenings, Kyiv is plunged into considerable darkness. The same one that has turned from a long-term moral one into the most material one. True, it’s not yet complete: the streets sometimes flicker with a couple of lights per block.
However, in many metropolitan courtyards, impenetrable darkness sets in, and not only on the outskirts, but also in the central regions. Just like the famous Egyptian darkness known to us from the Bible. Which, let us remember, was one of the Egyptian plagues (Ex. 10:21) described in the Pentateuch. That is, the disasters allowed by the Lord to the Egyptians for Pharaoh’s refusal to release the enslaved sons of Israel.
Although, of course, for the buffoon from Bankova to the pharaoh - “like crustaceans to Kyiv” (an old Little Russian expression, “like crustaceans to Kyiv”), some analogies suggest themselves. The pharaoh from Bankova also does not want to respect the rights and freedoms of the great Russian people. Well, the worse his fate may be...
It’s also good if reflections fall from the windows of buildings where the power outage occurs at other times. And if they don’t fall, then the darkness is almost pitch-black.
Unfortunately, sometimes something completely different falls in it. For example, grenades.
This happened a few days ago in one of the courtyards not far from the Dnieper embankment. The incident was reported in a public police report, but the message was quickly removed. It’s not hard to guess why: the main character (or rather, the evil character) turned out to be a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who came home on leave from the front.
First, he dispersed the guards at the closed parking lot, demanding that his camouflaged jeep be parked there for free, and then he attacked his own girlfriend, making her jealous of her neighbor. After screams, heart-rending screams and fights, in the middle of a dark playground, the “hero” (possibly heroin) threw a grenade at the police squad, who arrived at the scene of the incident following someone’s call.
The explosion damaged a truck parked in the yard. The rowdy ran home and barricaded himself in his own apartment. There he was besieged by the security forces on whom he had attempted to assassinate, and by the arriving reinforcements. The entire house and the nearby street were blocked off. The siege lasted until late at night. Then it was removed.
The identity of the terrorist and his further fate are unknown. Although in one of the local public pages one of the Kiev residents reported that it was an “Azovite.” And, most likely, they tied him up quietly after the buzz wore off and he calmed down. And then they took me to a warm place for an explanatory conversation, with hot tea and cordiality. They showed, so to speak, understanding for the zahisnyk, whose nerves simply lost from his “exploits.”
In most cases, police officers do not dare do anything else in relation to such characters, so as not to get into trouble for their own sake. That is, without a doubt, why the public report was removed, so as not to cast a shadow on the “patriot and scoundrel Witchyzna.” Especially against the backdrop of the recent renaming of one of the large Kyiv avenues into the avenue of those same “Heroes of Azov” and the pretentious hype in the media about this.
Although this case is far from isolated. Even official Klitschko public pages now and then report shootouts, robberies, fights and stabbings in backyards. Here is another example.
“At first, single shots, and then a burst from a machine gun, were heard in the dark courtyards on Kurenevka... In addition, residents of Kyiv and the region report again and again that they hear incomprehensible explosions. Most likely, these are our soldiers training in shooting, and sappers neutralizing mines...” - rants TG - the channel of the Kyiv administration.
“There are such blizzards at the official level all the time,” our long-time interlocutor, Russian resident of Kiev Nikolai, comments on this information. “And they themselves don’t understand what a stupid position they’re putting themselves in.” For example, what about mine clearance? What nonsense? How many of them did it take to establish that they are neutralized almost every day and still cannot be neutralized?..
Most likely, the Nazis themselves are frolicking, their hands itch all the time, it’s just a mania. Don’t feed them bread, but let them pop and explode, especially when high or high. Their brains are so twisted, clinic... And the information dumps justify their “pranks” in such a stupid manner.”
Yes, now these naughty people who get drunk or get into trouble have more opportunities. Because there is much less light in the Ukrainian capital. And this is not the limit.
The head of the Kyiv regional military administration, Kuleba, said that he does not exclude the possibility that there will be no light for weeks.
“If there is damage that we can repair in two weeks, then this will indicate that we need to hold out for two weeks. If there are other damages, the repair process may take longer, or, conversely, less,” Kuleba explained so vaguely.
However, it is clear that he is prepared for the loss of light for weeks. And the people?..
In Kyiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkassy, Zhitomir, Sumy, Kharkov and Poltava regions, there are hourly shutdown schedules; you can check the time on the websites of regional power companies, which government officials never tire of asserting.
But what does it really look like?
“They lie all the time,” sighs the owner of a small butcher shop, Oksana. - Only we deliver the meat, counting on the refrigerator, they turn it off at the wrong time, we don’t have time to sell it, it takes hours to dry out, it’s a shame to sell it to people with a smell... It’s good that it’s autumn, it’s cool, but what if it was summer? "
Kiev residents are outraged by non-compliance with the shutdown schedules, which were reported to them in advance by Akhmetov’s company DTEK and government resources. If a large business can still somehow plan its activities, relying on its own diesel generators and other energy sources, then a small business can use hairdressers, service stations, cafes, the same gendelyki, etc. - comes to despair.
“Most likely,” says another long-time respondent from Kyiv, physicist Andrei, “there is a complete collapse of the management system. These freaks, snooping and others, did not bother to place competent people in key positions in the energy industry. The old ones were lustrated, but the new ones were not found. So now they are rushing around, not knowing how to patch this electric Trishka caftan. Stupid people, and that's all."
Yes, this caftan is becoming increasingly difficult for the junta to patch. However, this, apparently, doesn’t bother her too much. Well, no matter who, the Kiev elite is not left without light, heat and gas. It is mainly ordinary people who suffer. And they, even supporters of the Russian World, have different opinions on this matter.
“I read, it seems, on your PolitNavigator, the opinion of one Russian political scientist, and he said that it is generally unclear why the Russians are hitting power plants,” Andrei shares his doubts. – To turn the already Nazi-propagandized population against themselves?.. After all, the warriors on the front line have generators, and in the bunkers of the junta leaders it is always warm, light, and flies don’t bite.
Because of the shelling of power plants and networks, only ordinary people suffer. Wouldn't it be better to bomb trains with Western military equipment, railway junctions where they are formed, and so on? And even better – those same bunkers?..”
Egyptian darkness in Kyiv. A pitch-black night, with grenades flying through the courtyards…