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I'm not a huge believer in petitions and that they can actually change anything, especially in this case, but at this point the situation is so dire that I'm ready to try anything, because I won't forgive myself if I personally won't try everything.

Please take a minute to sign the petition above asking UN to launch an urgent 'extraction' procedure of Mariupol defenders (and civilians that are still there) from Azovstal. We already have no time left, so this needs to be done asap, russian troops already entered some parts of Azovstal and the footage we occasionally still get from there is simply gore. Russian army didn't show any mercy to civilians, so I'm afraid to even imagine what they'll do to Mariupol defenders if they manage to capture them. We could not let that happen!

Organisers said that we need at least 1 000 000 signatures under this petition to be taken even remotely serious. For now we only have quarter of that and we need your help.

Please sign this petition! Please spread it everywhere you can and emphasise to people how urgent this is.

If Chaucer was tortured to death before he made it to his 40

If Orwell rotted away in a concentration camp

If the entire generation of beatniks was executed

If Britain existed behind the iron wall, and noone outside had a slightest clue about what's happening with the people inside

To add: Chechen activist gathers reactions from Ruzzians and "good Russians" here: https://twitter.com/konoplintusss/status/1582355293916532742?t=gqd_qsip9uWJ0uoTCKiVGg&s=19

The first, the second.

Then the third.

I jump into my jeans. Chats of friends and neighbours are exploding every nervous second - is everyone okay? Where did Russians hit today? I sent a message to the driver - “don't get here, there are explosions, I'm going there.”

How gross to walk down your street wearing a bulletproof vest. The area is surrounded by restriction stripes. I turn into the yard - it's good to know short cuts, because this is my district. It’s bad to recognize the body by birthmarks and tattoos that you remember so well.

"Air!" - I fall down. What a weird noise - now I know how these drones sound. There is no air in the chest. Only smoke. Everyone smokes, policemen and firefighters, doctors and locals, one endless smoke in the lungs.

Dima hugs Marina, they live on the top floor. Underground parking is a shitty shelter, but there is no other nearby. Dima shows a video on his mobile phone - the first hit and the light of the explosion floods their bedroom. I think about mine.

As long as we hug like that in shelters, we cannot be defeated.

I wish to share this thought with you, when (if?) we wake up next time.

11 Iranian Shahed drones, 5 hits in the residential area and critical infrastructure object, 3 peoples killed for now.

Morning in Kyiv.

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