kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: Since November 2024, the #Ukraine military administration in #Sudzha has been ...
Since November 2024, the #Ukraine military administration in #Sudzha has been negotiating with the #Russia side on an evacuation corridor for civilians from #Kursk oblast’ to the Russian side and no further shelling of the boarding school in Sudzha, where around 90 civilians have been moved for the winter.
Russian general Apti Alaudinov made this promise. Another conversation took place at the end of January because Russian drones had started to hit the boarding school, destroying some of the rooms and windows. Alaudinov guaranteed that nothing was flying in his sector and added that he could not be responsible for the ‘second sector’, but said he would ask them too. Here’s a full 15 minutes of calls that followed:
https://video.echelon.pl/w/wqAU94vn4eaJPHpH3Q2i8J
The recording shows another aspect of the war that rarely makes it into the media - in some areas, both sides maintain local contacts that ensure a minimum level of humanity in matters such as the evacuation of civilians, the exchange of bodies or the exchange of prisoners. This is good, except for the cases where it doesn’t work - and this was one of such cases.
The calls with Alaudinov are very interesting. At a certain point, he says that the issue of evacuation (in which even Moskalkova was involved) requires additional arrangements, but it was not possible to obtain consent because ‘there are people there who, you know, have their tarakany’. The expression ‘tarakany [cockroaches] in the head’ is a Russian idiom meaning some kind of paranoia or obsessive behaviour specific to a given person. Then Alaudinov avoids giving details and says ‘I’ll tell you later’ and adds that ‘too many people here want to give their consent’ and asks for a few days to sort it out.
And on 1 February Russians simply dropped an aerial bomb on the building while the official propaganda gave two entirely contradictory explanations: 1) that the building hosted an Ukrainian HQ, 2) that it was hit by an Ukrainian HIMARS missile. The calls with Alaudinov however indicate that Russians knew very well that the school is exclusively hosting civilians and that there were parties in Russian army interested in protecting or evacuating them, but there were also parties who were interested in exactly the opposite. And the latter simply acted.
Russian general Apti Alaudinov made this promise. Another conversation took place at the end of January because Russian drones had started to hit the boarding school, destroying some of the rooms and windows. Alaudinov guaranteed that nothing was flying in his sector and added that he could not be responsible for the ‘second sector’, but said he would ask them too. Here’s a full 15 minutes of calls that followed:
https://video.echelon.pl/w/wqAU94vn4eaJPHpH3Q2i8J
The recording shows another aspect of the war that rarely makes it into the media - in some areas, both sides maintain local contacts that ensure a minimum level of humanity in matters such as the evacuation of civilians, the exchange of bodies or the exchange of prisoners. This is good, except for the cases where it doesn’t work - and this was one of such cases.
The calls with Alaudinov are very interesting. At a certain point, he says that the issue of evacuation (in which even Moskalkova was involved) requires additional arrangements, but it was not possible to obtain consent because ‘there are people there who, you know, have their tarakany’. The expression ‘tarakany [cockroaches] in the head’ is a Russian idiom meaning some kind of paranoia or obsessive behaviour specific to a given person. Then Alaudinov avoids giving details and says ‘I’ll tell you later’ and adds that ‘too many people here want to give their consent’ and asks for a few days to sort it out.
And on 1 February Russians simply dropped an aerial bomb on the building while the official propaganda gave two entirely contradictory explanations: 1) that the building hosted an Ukrainian HQ, 2) that it was hit by an Ukrainian HIMARS missile. The calls with Alaudinov however indicate that Russians knew very well that the school is exclusively hosting civilians and that there were parties in Russian army interested in protecting or evacuating them, but there were also parties who were interested in exactly the opposite. And the latter simply acted.