As dismal as this report is, Alexei, we need to hear it.

Thank you so very much for posting this inside story on Medium.

On a sidebar, the prescient genius of George Orwell is shining brightly, along with your truth-telling, in the darkness of this present Putin evil.

War is NOT peace. War is hell. We must find a way to put an end to this blitzkreig before it is too late.

Damn the torpedoes, damn the nukes. We just need to go in there and rescue these people, Ukrainians AND Russians!