“Vladimir Putin is motivated by a desire to retain power, privilege, and leverage at all costs,” writes janinedigi. As the first anniversary of Russia's invasion looms, the veteran conflict reporter assesses Putin’s carnage in three decimated cities.
—but also against Putin and the Kremlin. Scrutinizing his methods from past wars, especially his deadly mass assaults on citizens in cities and towns, is a way to understand Putin’s current modus operandi.
Grozny, distinguished for its oil deposits, was founded in the 1800s as a fortress city, where a soldier named Leo Tolstoy was once stationed. In the early 21st century, however, after Grozny succumbed at last to Russian forces, the United Nations designated the Chechen capital the “most destroyed city on earth.”
Around dawn that morning, Masha and her small entourage crept out of their building. A Russian tank opened fire at them, she remembered. They crossed onto Budivelnykiv Avenue, nearly coming face-to-face with “tanks with the letter Z”—a marking on Russian-aligned vehicles—“and we got so scared, we ran,” Masha recalled. “One tank drove out onto the avenue and began to follow us.
Feeling slightly better, she told her mother she would go by foot to find her uncle, who lived about 30 minutes away, in a part of the city that was being heavily shelled. Leaving the building, she walked rapidly, trying to avoid incoming fire. Then she heard a plane. “Unfortunately,” she said, “I know what a plane that drops bombs sounds like because all we did [for days and nights] was count these planes [that] dropped bombs.
They both had lost track of their mother, but she turned out to be safe. At the time of the explosion, she had gone down to the first floor and, a while later, made it out alive. Their three neighbors, who had likewise sought refuge on the third floor, had been knocked over in the bomb blast but also survived.
The soldiers told them not to chat or quarrel with the Russian soldiers—and to be sure to insist that they were civilians.
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