The Iron Curtain Between Us and The Occupiers - December 8th 2023

December 8th 2023

Yuriy shares his struggle with illness and the pivotal role of shells in Ukraine's survival. He highlights the dire consequences that losing access to shells would have on the lives of civilians and emphasizes the moral responsibility of decision-makers in the West to support their fight for freedom and protect innocent lives.

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It's December 8th. 

Once again, I'm forced to apologize for my long absence- I have been sick for the past week, I just lay there unable to do anything with a high fever and waited for the time when I would become a human again, not a piece of hot stone. I don't know if it was Covid or the flu, but it was really hard. I was only able to get out of this state by a call from the United States, from a reporter from the Atlantic Magazine. He called me yesterday to get a short comment on what the possible cessation of supplies of shells from the United States would mean for Ukraine. 

It was supposed to be a short conversation. One main question, a couple of clarified ones, and that's it. The comment is ready, but we talked for almost an hour because these shells are the most important thing for Ukraine now. They are simply the guarantee of our survival. I will try to briefly summarize the main thoughts of my stories so that you understand what I mean. Remember I often mention Russian "meat waves" in this podcast. Suicidal attempts of the enemy to occupy Ukrainian positions by the forces of only the infantry without the participation of any equipment. This suicidal assaults in which the Russians are simply killing their soldiers by the thousands are carried out only because we have artillery and shells for it, thanks to which a thank or an armored personal carrier does not live on the battlefield for more when few minutes.

If we didn't have the opportunity to destroy their equipment from a distance the Russians would not attack with suicide infantry. They would simply drive their armor onto our positions into our cities. The occupiers are forced to run on foot to machine guns across mine fields precisely because we still have enough guns and shells for them, thanks to which the occupiers are afraid to send equipment to the battlefield.

I called the shells for guns that we receive from the United States, 'a deadly iron curtain' that simply keeps the enemy in the positions it had managed to occupy and does not let it go farther. "What will happen if Ukraine has no shells?" The reporter asked me. The answer is very simple. "If our guns are left without shells, the iron curtain between us and the occupiers will fall. It will be much easier for them to capture new cities and entire regions. Losses among Ukrainian soldiers will increase and increase very noticeably. If we are left without shells, new Buchas and new Mariupols will await us. That is new mass killings of a civilian population in the occupied territories. New tortures, new abuses of elderly children and women." 

The reporter also asked what people who make decisions in the West about providing or not providing shells need to know. Here too, everything is simple. Imagine you have a warehouse with shells where you are not threatened by anything, where these shells just lie and will never be used. And somewhere there is a country in which real concentration camps will appear without these shells. In which thousands of people will die a very terrible death if where defenders are left without shells. And so you have a very clear choice. Either you keep the shells that you don't really need, and through this you become an accomplice of those who are creating new Auschwitz and Dachaus in the 21st century. Or you do what a human being should do. You give these shells away and save the lives of the elderly and children. Everything is actually that simple. You can't be above this fight. You either help those who are fighting for freedom and life, or you do nothing ever by help without your parents and murderers