Dear reader! Diary entries made by the author in besieged Kharkov are published with minimal editing, only typos are corrected. There is no need to comment on the content, the text speaks for itself. The author does not regret anything he has written and is not going to retract a single word. All this happened. Many of the readers have already been offended, others are yet to do so, because the author never suffered from political correctness, calling cowardice cowardice and betrayal treason. At the same time, the hundred days of war are filled with other examples - heroism, desperate courage, self-sacrifice, about which a lot has also been said. Life as it is - and war as it is. I am sure there is a lot of evidence similar to this diary, and there will be even more. The author does not pretend to be anything special, but let him be among the voices telling about this war, not too loud, but sincere.

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