Dnipro, 18 August, morning
Big changes here in Dnipro. Businesses closing down faster than I have ever seen. Protests now in most major cities, being reported as pro federov but this isn't true, they are people and businesses protesting about economic conditions, lack of labour, an inability to get products imported without paying huge bribes and many companies just closing as they can see the writing on the wall as winter approaches. People are scrambling now, food stocks and other supermarket goods are starting to run low in some stores, and constant attacks against Nova Poshta are devastating e-commerce.
For the first time today I saw humanitarian trucks giving out food and clothing in Dnipro. They won't start distributing till 10, but already a crowd of people. Unthinkable even 6 months ago.
Fuel strikes are causing supply issues outside the main city areas, and people are planning to leave. I know of one group of 40 or so men who crossed the Tysa River into Romania last week, am told more than 500 did on one day after bribing border guards.
Increasingly people are talking about mobilising single women without children, and this is creating even more concern and driving bigger lines at the border into Europe.
We cannot now be far off an end, the country is falling apart and people fleecing at every opportunity. Govt corruption is found in every single transaction done with government.
People here are well aware of the realities on the frontlines, several of my friends now openly mock western news and Kiev cabal claims of Ukrainian advances or counter offensives. Yet dumbarse mappers still report them.
