New York Times: Russian Town Near Ukraine, Once Quiet, Now Buzzes With Military Activity
GOLOVINKA, Russia — The southern Russian steppe in summertime typically offers a soul-lifting panorama of wheat fields and sunflowers, swaying in the breezes, and vast empty spaces. It is Russia’s big sky country, rural and calm.
Normally, that is. One morning this spring, the serenity in this village deep in the Russian countryside near the Ukrainian border was broken by a loud, rumbling explosion intense enough to send out window-shattering shock waves. Soon, residents said, Russian soldiers appeared running through the wheat fields, some in their underwear, waving their arms wildly and yelling, “Save yourselves however you can!”
The panicked soldiers were not under attack, as it turns out, but were fleeing a fire in a well-stocked ammunition depot at a nearby Russian military base, recalled a local dairy farmer who, worried about harassment, offered only his first name, Anatoli. By that point, he said, artillery shells had begun whistling away from the base and into the fields.
WNU Editor: Considering the fact that a low intensity war is now underway in eastern Ukraine, and that there are now over one million refugees in Russia .... not having this military presence near the border would be more of a surprise than having one. The above YouTube video shows Russian soldiers fleeing the Kuzminka military base after a fire at its ammunition depot near the Ukraine border.
4 comments:
" that there are now over one million refugees in Russia"
That is messed up.
WNU
Any word on sabotage? I read the article but it seems a little fishy to me.
Aizino .... Ukraine's internally displaced and refugee crisis is being grossly underestimated. There are many who are fleeing because of the war, there are those who are being hit by the economic depression, and there are those who are fleeing the draft. The families of two of my cousins from Ukraine are now living in my parents home outside of Moscow, and I have offered my condo in Moscow to my aunt and her husband in Kharkiv (but they have refused).
WNU,
There are various ways that your aunt staying in your condo may be beneficial. For starters if it is occupied it might be less likely to be burglarized. After all there is a reason why we have the word house sitter in the English language.
I would try again.
My 2 cents.
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