ai-written for The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative-

aiI am a Russian language and literature teacher with almost 30 years of experience. Under shelling, sometimes I felt as if my heart was turning into a small bird, into a sparrow. I felt how it folded and shrank.

aiAlmost all nine-story houses around were black and destroyed. It was horrifying to look at them because, quite recently, it was New Year’s Eve, and the houses shone. There was life in them...

aiMy name is Pavlova Oksana Viktorivna. On the first day of the war, in the morning, I worked as a teacher at school No. 18 in Mariupol. In the morning, we learned that the war had begun. However, we thought that on the 24th, we would conduct online lessons...

aiFinally, I said: “How can this be? There is a civilized world; there is the UN. There are different organizations; humanity knows the experience of World War II. Why is it like this now? How could this happen?”

aiMariupol residents thought maybe a week, and then everything will end at some high level. We thought we would wait here for silence. But then, we realized that humanity has no experience, and as wise people say, every war begins incomprehensibly. And then it ends the same way. However, unfortunately, we cannot contain it. Even now, there are no institutions that could influence the war.

aiWhen the war began in Ukraine, we realized (I understood) that we were indifferent to the grief of others. Georgia, Chechnya, Serbia, Syria... When there were wars, we didn’t even try to help, to volunteer en masse.