Dnipro, Thursday 26June, morning
Has been a while since I posted rethe situation in dnipro, a region we now share with RF forces. This has been partly as I have been quite busy, I have increased my volunteer medivac driving to 4 days a week, and partly because very little has been happening. Like most of the world, Dniproans watched on while Israel and Iran staged a pretend war glad that the usa, and Europe would now be busy elsewhere. Seriously though, given the size and nature of the conflict here in ukraine, calling that a 12 day war is rediculous. At best it was a minor missile skirmish where less people died in those 12 days than are killed in Ukraine in half a day.
Still, it again displayed the weakness, and ineffectiveness of western weapons, something I have seen first hand in Ukraine many times over the past few years.
I have done a couple drives west the past few weeks also, and military supplies continue to flow, at a lower than average level maybe, but still they come. Whereas once there was 5-6 convoys of 10-15 trucks, now it's about the same but with 4-5 trucks. Plenty of heavy armour being evacuated west for repairs, some coming back but more out than in from what I saw.
TCC mobilisation efforts are now at peak level. They are everywhere, I know of 6 people who have been mobilised over the past month, three have just run away when they got to training camps, the remainder preparing to when they are actually deployed.
Protests in Maidan have started, a couple bus loads of people from Dnipro have gone to join them, but they are still a long way from becoming big enough to create issues for Zelenksy.
Most Ukrainians are just trying to get on with life and ignore the war, hoping it will just go away, but people are universal in two things. They hate Zelenksy, and no one believes Ukraine will survive the conflict.
People openly now talk of defeat, and the fleeing of Zelenksy and his cabal.
In the past few days there has been quite a but of helicopter activity in Dnipro, much more than usual, many people believe an attempt to recover the ZPP is going to be made by air dropping special forces into the facility, I guess we shall see.
Locals are also very unhappy about some drone production facilities being set up in large residential apartment complexes, and in several schools which are vacant atm as it's summer holidays. We are currently housing a couple families from one apartment complex as they are worried about a strike. It's always interesting why they don't convert the rada building or presidential offices into drone production facilities, but will happily endanger civilians in residential complexes. We all know why.
