Everyone is looking for answers to the question of who is to blame for the tragedy at Ilovaisk. The answer is very simple: Heletey, Muzhenko, and Lytvin, together with all the other generals who have been squandering the good faith Ukrainians have placed in them. They have been looking for ways to place all the fault on one battalion, namely Battalion “Prykarpattia”. They are accusing them of everything. Once again the ordinary solider must be the voice of reason and question whether our “eminently qualified” leadership is, as always, “innocent and guiltless.”
Litwin, for example, is a traitor and chief of the country’s black market, having transformed the Ukrainian border into a profitable business. He must answer for every death of every man who perished on account of his callousness and greed.
As for Muzhenko and Heletey, these are two real “professionals”. One gave my father his word as an officer that he would do everything humanly possible to ensure everyone returned from Ilovaisk safe and sound. Now you can reach your own conclusions. The second man is a true parody of a minister, an image that evokes disgust and revulsion when one considers what he is doing in this post. Instead of Ministers of Defence we have rank amateurs and traitors. One capitulated on Crimea, a second bought protective vests at 13,000 hrvnia each, and a third is shamelessly ceding the East.
It is not the ordinary fighting men, but rather the entire leadership of the army that must take responsibility for Ilovaisk. They did not think they through. It is their fault. It is they who turned us into cannon fodder and then abandoned us to die in the hell it became. Everyone of us who survived has God to thank, because there is no other explanation.
I am certain that the guilty will be punished, as I know that there is such a thing as justice in this world. Those of us who survived will make this a matter of principle. In time all the “i’s” will be dotted, and we will see to it that our case is made. The old ways of handling such matters no longer work. My only question is this: how can you sleep at night knowing that your cowardice and treason resulted in the deaths of so many decent and brave men?
