Ukraine (and my own) status update (Patreon)

Hey folks! As many of you may know already even if you don't follow Ukraine updates in Discord or in community blog at my YT channel - Kyiv region is now fully free of russian terrorists. What does this mean practically - for Ukraine, as well as for me and my work?

For Ukraine:

The battle for Kyiv (and generally, north and north-east of Ukraine) is a victory of Ukraine and complete, humiliating loss for russia. Pooteen's regime abandoned even dreaming about getting whole Ukraine. Regions of Sumi, Chernigiv will follow to be fully liberated by Ukrainian forces (northern region to the east). The "72 hours blitzkrieg" turned to be already a 39th day of heroic resistance of Ukrainians, already around over 50k russian soldiers killed or injured, thousands of russian vehicles destroyed. You may ask "wait, I saw only digit of 18k personnel loss for russians". Yep - but this digit only mentions killed soldiers, and only those who were officially identified by Ukraine after major battles ended. This doesn't include unidentified killed russians, russians killed by guerilla all around the country, and injured ones. So the actual number is several times higher.

To explain in a different and more clear way - in total, russia has 75 tactical groups (a certain measure of army unit) in Ukraine. From those 75 groups, 16 are already eliminated, and around 34 are damaged to the state they are not able to make operational moves (aka - can't move at large distances and perform attacks). This makes it of 25 tactical groups (around 50k soldiers) which are actually capable to fight. Sort of, because you can imagine the level of russians morale as for now.

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean a complete victory yet - only the fact Pooteen understood he should not even dream about whole Ukraine now, but he still needs at least some "victory" to justify the propaganda to own zombified nation.
Russians are now evacuating whatever they have left operable on Kyiv/Chernihiv/Sumi regions, and trying to move these forces to the east and south-east of Ukraine. The battle for Donbass is only about to happen.

Heavy fights are now going to the south and south-east from Kharkiv. This is my native city and its region is located directly above Donbass, so russians need to make a "corridor" there to be able to move troops to Donbass. They will attempt to take over whole Donbass (read - Donetsk and Luhanks regions completely), and probably part of south, namely Zaporizhya and Kherson regions. I don't even have doubts that Zaporizhya and Kherson will remain just a wet dream for them (Ukrainian forces are already coming closer to the outskirts of temporarily occupied Kherson, and liberation of this city is only a matter of time). But the result of battle for Donbass is yet about to be decided.

Liberation of Kyiv region also brought more pain than happiness. The monsters which call themselves "russian army" are not soldiers neither they are humans. All around the liberated settlements, there are bodies of raped women. Killed elderly. Raped children, often girls below 10 y.o. age. Men with hands tied and shot to the head. Mass amount of bodies just dumped into the pits and sewerages.
Let me repeat this once again: raped and killed children below 10 years age. Everywhere.

For me and my work:

I'm located in Kyiv region. Liberation of it removes the threat of actual fights (infantry fights, tank fights, diversion groups mostly too, because there's no tactical goals in Kyiv region for russia now so) in it, so it means I can exhale in this matter. This also means there is no more threat of artillery shelling, which was present all this time till just last few days.
At the same time, this doesn't remove one major threat - air raids (bombardments from planes and ballistic rockets launched from territory of Belarus, Crimea and russia). The tactic of russia in this matter is "simple" - they bombard the cities when they plan to take it, to seed fear. If they understand they are not able to take those cities, they..bombard it even more.

So the ballistic (meaning those whic have 1500+ km range, so they can reach any Ukrainian city) rocket strikes threat is still the more or less the same. This is also the main factor which keeps me from working fully in normal pace and mode, especially on YT videos. For instance, this is how Ukraine looked in terms of air raid threat this whole night. Red colors on the map marks the regions with a danger of an air raid or rocket strike. Only 1 of 25 Ukraine regions didn't have an air raid alarm, lol (one, because the two regions to the east are Donbass, where this alarm is basically endless atm).
At the same time, I will keep working on the guide updates - this is what I can do, and as promised, I've already delivered update for Witcher 3 guide. Skyrim guide udpate comes next, then FNV, CP2077 and others.

Tldr:
- As for now, the victory of Ukraine in this war is only a matter of time. But the exact result of the battle for Donbass is yet to be decided.
- Russian army is not "soldiers" and not humans. It's an army of abominations which enjoys what they do. They already committed worse atrocities then nazis back in WWII. You can see photos of those in my Twitter.
- Region where I am in has no more threat of army fights, but still has same threat of rocket attacks and air raids.
- I'm not yet able to work on YT videos and not able to work on regular speed in general, because of rocket strikes which force me to spend major part of the day in the basement.
- I am working on the guide updates though, and if rocket strikes threat will decline, I will work more.

Thanks to all of you for your incredible support! I'm basically now living from Patreon only, because my YT income went to minimal as I'm not posting new videos with core channel content. Your support also allows me to help my family, because none of them have any money left and they can rely only on me.
My normal workflow will be restored, and I will return with 200% of my energy - but first, Ukraine will have to behead this abomination of a russian regime which invaded us.
And we will do this.
You all are incredible. Cya soon!