'Russia wants to imprison a whole country, to trap and confine Ukraine in Putin's cellar, both metaphorically and literally.' 📝 Peter Pomerantsev
parts of the country he was claiming to annex. As Ukrainian forces have freed people over the last few weeks in the Kharkiv region over from Russian occupiers, they were greeted by relieved locals. Many told how they spent weeks, sometimes even months, hiding in their cellars from the Russian invasion. Such cellar stories are one of the repeating leitmotifs of the invasion.
Holding cells are visible in a basement of a police station that was used by Russian forces to detain and torture Ukrainians in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, on Sept. 22, 2022.In the village of Yahidne, in northern Ukraine, Russian soldiers drove three hundred villagers in the cellar beneath the school, from infants through to old-age pensioners. Without medical care some died.
“Civil society,” that web of horizontal social interconnections whose loss is always being lamented in the U.S., actually exists here—citizens band together to build city defenses, clean up the debris after missile hits, nurse the wounded and orphaned. Ukraine reminds what “family values” really mean: the whole country fights like one great family.
People gather to look at an apartment building damaged by two Russian rockets that hit earlier on Sept. 11, 2022, at around three o'clock in the afternoon, in Donetsk, Ukraine.In Kharkiv in July, in the far East of Ukraine, I was in the cellar of my colleague, the journalist Natalia Kurdiokova. Since an artillery strike knocked out the toilet of her apartment she has moved underground. It’s a comfortable cellar that she was already using as an office before the war.
Natalia recalled how much she used to enjoy climbing on her roof to gaze out over the city and beyond.Climbing up high always inspires a sense of possibilities. The barrages of Russian artillery have made such ascents impossible. Russia is not only forcing Ukrainians physically into cellars, it’s trying to do so mentally as well: to rob Ukrainians of their sense of a future, of horizons, of openness.
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