The weather continues to be wonderful and I continue to ignore the air raid alarms at night these last few days, preferring to sleep more. I get very tired at work, which is really interesting and I always want to do this and that and something else.
Today I made one work appointment near the hospital and, combining work with personal, I finally visited the doctor. He looked at the results of the tests, asked about how I was feeling and concluded that my condition was better than he expected, but left the medication unchanged because I still had rhythm problems. The next appointment is before the New Year, and I will have to take the pills for at least another year and a half. He also said to take vitamins. I agree with this, especially considering the recent leg cramp that I suffered from for half the night the day before yesterday.
The hospital is located near a place where several rockets hit in the summer and there are still piles of garbage and burnt buildings. Otherwise, it is difficult to say that there is a war in Kyiv.
But in Kharkiv today there is new destruction and casualties due to air strikes. Aircraft bombs cannot be shot down by air defense and are extremely inaccurate. Although it is impossible to say with certainty where the russian terrorists are aiming.
https://suspilne.media/kharkiv/843411-u-harkovi-vdruge-za-den-prolunali-vibuhi-povitrani-sili-poperedzali-pro-nebezpeku-aviabomb/However, civilian casualties have not stopped anyone from bombing cities for a long time. As hospitals across Lebanon struggle to cope with the sheer number of casualties from yesterday’s widespread Israeli air strikes, the Lebanese health minister has said what happened in his country was “carnage”. Dr Firas Abiad told me it was “clear” that many victims of the attacks were civilians, including children and women, who were in their homes doing “normal things”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y32qew9z2tUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the war with russia could end sooner than some people think. "I think that we are closer to peace than we think," he told US broadcaster ABC News. He added that Ukraine could push russian President Vladimir pootin to end the conflict, but only if Kyiv was coming from a "strong position" - once again calling on his Western allies to strengthen the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian president is in the US this week to speak at the United Nations General Assembly and to present what he has called a "victory plan" to his Western allies, including US President Joe Biden. In a statement ahead of the visit, Zelensky said the plan included further weapons donations, diplomatic efforts to force Russia to agree to peace, and holding Moscow accountable for its full-scale invasion in 2022.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7582l4015oThe victory plan was developed in the Office of the President, members of parliament from the presidential party "Servants of the People" and from the relevant committees did not participate in its development. The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, "servant of the people" Oleksandr Merezhko, stated this on Radio Svoboda. According to him, the document was developed in the "secrecy mode", it is a document of a military-technical nature. Source:
https://censor.net/ua/n3511514In my opinion, this is a very strange position, given that according to the constitution of Ukraine it is a democratic country, but it is normal if we remember that in fact Ukraine has long since become a dictatorship of the Japanese medieval type, where the nominal ruler was the emperor, but the shogun actually ruled. It also seems that poor people there did not even have the right to their own name. And poor people in Ukraine now have no right to even know what awaits them.
The president of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, told the New York Times that Ukraine would have to be "realistic" about its prospects of recovering the areas in the east of the country which russia has managed to gain over the last 31 months of war. He added that the most likely outcome of the war was that a part of Ukrainian territory would remain under russian occupation for a number of years. A defeat of either Ukraine or russia "will simply not happen", Pavel told the Times, adding that the end of the conflict would be "somewhere in between".
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/world/europe/ukraine-war-goals-russia-czech-president.htmlAt the same time russian troops have made serious advances in the east and are closing in on Vuhledar - a city on the southern part of the Donbas front line that the russians have been trying to seize since the beginning of their full-scale invasion.
https://ukranews.com/ua/news/1036354-brygada-zsu-yaka-drugyj-rik-oboronyaye-vugledar-perebuvaye-na-mezhi-otochennya-cherez-vysnazhennyaMy friend has been fighting there since the big invasion and I don't even know if he's still alive. I can't bring myself to call or write to those who I'm not sure will answer.
