In Ukraine’s Pokrovsk, some quietly waiting for Russian troops

4 comments

1. I was told the Russian advance was stopped. Is this Kremlin propaganda? We must combat these blatant falsehoods by burying our heads even deeper in the sand.

2. “we have potatoes, we won’t starve”. Up to 8000 people per 100 kms starved in Donbas during Holodomor. That was during russian mir btw. [https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/population-losses](https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/population-losses)

3. They should be evacuated but “to the Russian side”. That is what they wish.

4. This reminds me of the people (especially American reactionaries) rejecting the COVID vaccine until the ended up with  fatal complications, and it was too late for any treatment, much less a vaccine, to save them.