I've been feeling incredibly apathetic this week. A close friend of mine, her sick son is about to be killed. Mobilization. In Russia, there are the following categories of military fitness, where military service is mandatory. Category A – fit for service, B – fit for service with minor restrictions, V – exempt from military service due to illness but subject to mobilization, D – temporarily unfit, e.g., spinal injury (Recovery is allowed for no more than 6 months, after which mobilization follows), E – unfit, this category includes either blind or paralyzed individuals. My child was able to leave because she was still young, but her son has turned 18. They ordered his son to appear for a data verification procedure, then barred him from leaving, and referred him to a medical board, where the doctors changed his fitness status without even looking at him. Subsequently, the unit commander signed a military contract in his name.They are already sending Group V the front, where they have no chance of survival. A new wave of mobilization will be announced on April 25. What could we have done to bring about regime change? Iran's apparatus of repression is much smaller, but even there, the protests achieved nothing, just as the bombings did. Putin has 2 million National Guard troops alone excluding the military, the equivalent of Iran's IRGC, which numbers around 300,000. I wouldn't say I'm broken, I just don't notice the world around me. My child will be able to adapt and change her mindset, but I probably never will. Everything around me seems to fly by in fast motion. I look at them, the people around me, and before my eyes I see the innocent on both sides, dying in the mud and blood, gazing up at the sky in this criminal war. I remember my friend's son, he looked so young, delicate, and frail. Putin won't stop until he's killed everyone. There will be a mass mobilization on April 25. Here we are, enjoying life, while he's over there and hundreds of thousands like him, guilty of nothing more than being born in the wrong country. As of now, it is known that two children, aged 14 and 16, have been sent to a general security prison for minors aged 14 to 18, according to the verdict for terrorist activities. According to their mothers, they are beaten and humiliated there. The last message from one of them was: "Mommy, I think I'm going to die soon." To put it simply, I feel the same way as the Iraq War veterans who can't go back to normal life, but their war ended long ago, while mine hasn't. Some people are born to live, while others are born to die a horrible death, with no chance of survival. No one will ever understand me, I'll never be part of the society around me, simply because I don't want to.
