Published 2 years ago
Beautiful scenery recorded in the backyard of a Civilian near Horlivka in the Donetsk region is shattered when an artillery barrage impacts with what is believed to be a Russian position.
I don't know why, but something about this video hits hard. In 2020 I remember standing on my back porch in Salt Lake City. I was cooking some steaks on the grill for dinner and had been entirely ignoring the news at the time. What I didn't know is that about 5 minutes from my house there were massive Black Lives Matters protesting happening. Police cars were being burned, stores were being looted, and some guy with a bow and arrow shot someone in traffic, and I had no idea any of it was happening.
My only hint to the chaos just five minutes away from where I lived was a couple of large smoke stacks coming from the direction of down town. I didn't think anything of it though, I just kept cooking my steak. It wasn't until the next day that I found out about everything that had happened downtown while I was cooking my dinner.
I imagine for a lot of civilians in Ukraine who just want to continue on with their lives, this is probably a lot like what the current war-time situation is like. Only, they can't just ignore the artillery barrages and machine gun fire like I ignored a minor riot. Literally at any moment Russian or Ukrainian Soldiers could approach their homes and turn it into a fighting position, and there wouldn't be a damn thing they could do about it.
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