jon_norstog
12-25-2022, 01:07
From the NYT:
"On a foggy morning a few months ago, Valentyn Dmytrovych Yermolenko, an aging Ukrainian fisherman with a bad back and horrible knees, puttered down a narrow channel off the Dnipro River, his inflatable dinghy cutting through the mist.
His city, Kherson, had been taken over by the Russian Army, and on the floor of his boat, concealed under a fishing net in a black plastic tub, Mr. Yermolenko had hidden three disassembled automatic rifles.
As he took a bend in the river, he recalled, a Russian patrol boat materialized in front of him. A commander standing on the deck in crisp camouflage barked: "Grandpa! Where are you going?"
After Mr. Yermolenko muttered something about getting fish for his wife, the commander ordered a search of the boat. A young soldier stomped aboard and went straight to the black plastic tub.
"What is this?" he asked.
Mr. Yermolenko, 64, said he was so scared that he wet his pants."
It's worth reading here https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/world/europe/ukraine-kherson-defiance-russia.html
Merry Christmas et Happy New Year
jn
"On a foggy morning a few months ago, Valentyn Dmytrovych Yermolenko, an aging Ukrainian fisherman with a bad back and horrible knees, puttered down a narrow channel off the Dnipro River, his inflatable dinghy cutting through the mist.
His city, Kherson, had been taken over by the Russian Army, and on the floor of his boat, concealed under a fishing net in a black plastic tub, Mr. Yermolenko had hidden three disassembled automatic rifles.
As he took a bend in the river, he recalled, a Russian patrol boat materialized in front of him. A commander standing on the deck in crisp camouflage barked: "Grandpa! Where are you going?"
After Mr. Yermolenko muttered something about getting fish for his wife, the commander ordered a search of the boat. A young soldier stomped aboard and went straight to the black plastic tub.
"What is this?" he asked.
Mr. Yermolenko, 64, said he was so scared that he wet his pants."
It's worth reading here https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/world/europe/ukraine-kherson-defiance-russia.html
Merry Christmas et Happy New Year
jn