Dnipro, 29 April, Morning.
Had a trip west to pick up some medical supplies over past two days, got back very early this morning. Thanks Alexander and Alex for keeping me company with your videos.
Many supply convoys, there is no reduction in munitions shipments, if anything they have increased. There was one convoy of over 40 trucks under escorts, biggest I have seen, another of at least 26. There was also a convoy of 19 brand new supply trucks heading east, I am guessing by the speed they weren't loaded. Interesting i saw no heavy armour heading east, several trucks with damaged equipment heading west, including at least one himars, or what was left of it.
Several more block posts, of interest I was stopped by half a dozen this trip, normally I am waived through as I know most of them, but this time new ones were very diligent, and each time it was a girl who checked my papers and Id. Again that's unusual. TCC out in force everywhere, I even saw some at cemetaries as it was memorial day on Sunday and yesterday here, and they were clearly trying to 'recruit' there. Knowing how seriously Slavs take these days, I doubt it would be without a significant fight. The flags flying in cemeteries, and the banners for the dead in each village is mind blowing, every trip more and more.
We have had a cooler few days, although lovely and sunny, but starting to warm up again. Plenty of drone activity, have noticed a few strikes without air warnings, and I am guessing as fighting is now approaching, and in some cases now in the Dnipro Oblast air alarms will be more frequent, which has been the case in the past few days according to the local channel that reports them. It seemed during my drive they were almost constant.
Very much looking like trumpy has screwed the pooch once again, so people are despondent and are resolutely preparing for a much longer conflict. Many are very bitter at the usa for not putting an end to the conflict. Trump again merely proves that you simply can't overestimate the abject stupidity, and callous disregard for life that western leaders have. I wonder if those in the west realise that this conflict is not to the last Ukrainian, it will be to the last European....
First they came for the 25-55 year old Ukrainian men
And I did not speak out
Because I was not amongst those called up
Then they came for the 18-60 year old Ukrainian men,
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Ukrainian,
Then they came for the Ukrainian women
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Ukrainian women
Then they came for the Polish, Latvians and Lithuanian men and women,
And I did not speak out
Because I was not from those country's,
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
I have realised something over the past few years, it's not just that they don't care about Ukrainian lives, it's that they don't care about any of your lives, just their own wallets and delusions of grandeur. They are not the elite, they are scum, and until everyone realises that, they will keep coming for you, and for your sons, brothers, fathers, and very soon sisters, daughters and mothers. Dont ask when Ukrainians will stand up and fight back, ask when your own populations will stand up to stop what has to be the most disgusting time in history. Not just in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Africa, soon India. It is all in your names.