Commentary by Larisa Shesler.
[ColonelCassad] Strange as it may seem, there is no celebration of the victory over the counterattack on Kherson either in city publics or on city websites.
Even Russian telegram channels this time are more critical of the situation on the border of the Kherson and Nikolaev regions. The Nikolaev mass-media while as in a mouth of water typed.
Although in light of the situation with tap water, this metaphor sounds like a hint of urine therapy.
Optimism is not added by the strings of ambulances that rush around the city, placing the wounded.
Despite the fact that Kim announced the return of the population to the city, Nikolaev is empty before our eyes, and there are very few women on the streets.
More than half of the apartments in the entrances of houses are empty, and even those in which they live are inhabited either by pensioners or men left without families.
Many believe that after women are declared liable for military service, in the very next few days, even those men who kept their girlfriends and wives will send them abroad.
The mobilization of women - even the most stoned patriot will shudder from this, more and more people are in the mood to leave.
The information that a decree was issued in Russia on granting pensions to refugees from Ukraine added motivation to leave, at least through Poland to Russia.
The hospitals are overflowing with the wounded - the victims of the "counterattack", and hundreds of the wounded lie in all the wards and arrive every day, there is a terrible shortage of nurses.
But in other areas of activity, total unemployment. Even those who had only recently made their living by repairing broken windows and repairing roofs have lost their jobs.
Nobody has money. If ten days ago the loader was promised 30 hryvnias per hour, now the rates have fallen to 20 hryvnias.
For a full working day - 200 rubles in terms of Russian. Hunger has become not abstract, but the most real.
But in the city, they finally began to gradually remove tires that were foolishly applied to intersections back in March.
Then it seemed to the idiots from the defense industry that it would be such a game as on the Maidan - they would raise tires, and the enemy would scatter.
Six months later, these barricades are remembered as debilizm.
They are shelling the city, shelling military units in the suburbs and district centers.
After the attack on the military, located in the industrial area of ​​​​the plant 61 Communards, windows flew out in the museum "Old Fleet Barracks", although the museum building itself was not very damaged.
In Nikolaev, as always, the blows fall on the industrial zones and the territory of ports.
And the Ukrainian military fired at Snigirevka, hitting the playground and the school. Children died.
Panic and nervous breakdowns among the population gave way to severe depression among the "patriots" and those who are waiting for Russia.
But there is hope. The example of Mariupol from a horror story becomes a spark of such hope.
(c) Larisa Shesler