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Editorial Note
Foreword
Ukraine, War, Love
I don’t call you anything
Zinaida Gippius once said (March 2, Donetsk)
The Overcoat (March 2, Luhansk)
Can you fall in love at a precisely determined time?
Dima and I are starting a newspaper
The Former President (March 3, Rostov)
The Beginning of the “Foreign Spring” (March 3)
The Demonstration at the Church (March 4)
The First Assault (March 5)
Today, a “presumed” bomb was found (March 6)
The Gun (March 7)
It’s March 8
The Most Fashionable Word
The Yid Banderite
From Letters Not to You
After the pro-Ukraine Demonstration (March 13)
The Ides of March
Quirks
The uprising was running on an abbreviated schedule (March 22, Donetsk)
From Letters Not to You (April 7)
The Assault—The Donetsk People’s Asylum—I’m Writing for the Paper (April 6–13)
Words and Meanings (April 12, Slovyansk)
From Letters Not to You
My friend works for a newspaper here (April 13)
Two of our soldiers were taken hostage at the border (April 15)
Dear Maksim, I have a request for you (April 17)
Wait—if you don’t mind (April 17)
Passion Week: Easter Sunday
Us and Them
Passionate People
“Hi. We’re fascists and Banderites now” (April 21, Moscow)
I speak about a love that doesn’t insist on its own way (April 22, Moscow)
We’re not leaving (April 23, Donetsk)
The Eastern Front (May 10, Mariupol)
How to Hold a Referendum: A Methodological Handbook for New Invaders (May 11)
In the Shade (May 15, Kostyantynivka)
The News
How I’m feeling out here? (May 17, Kyiv)
There’s a popular topic in the capital (May 17, Kyiv)
The Ukraine: Thinking Together Conference (May 18, Kyiv)
Muratov (May 18, Dnipropetrovsk)
Thinking Together? (May 18, Kyiv)
The Hospital (May 19, Slovyansk)
Did you know that, for hunter-gatherer tribes, there’s no such thing as bad gods?
Is it possible to accept someone else’s god as your own?
Not ____ Enough
The Coffin on Little Wheels (May 21, Mariupol)
You don’t have to be poor
You can also consider the issue from the point of view of love
Dima and I are meeting the governor (May 24, Donetsk)
There was no presidential election (May 25, Donetsk, Slovyansk, Horlivka)
From Letters Not to You
The anti-terrorist operation, ATO for short (May 27)
Our laughter’s dark (May 28)
The Tattoo Artist (May 29, Donetsk)
From Letters Not to You
Headlines. Just Look at These Headlines… (May 29)
Casablanca (May 30, Donetsk)
Victors have to be fools
Difficult Faces (June 1, Donetsk)
Rumors (June 1, Donetsk)
The Photographer (June 7, Donetsk)
Falling in Love with a Wizard (June 12, Donetsk)
Announcing the Armed Rebellion (June 20, Donetsk—Horlivka)
Like a Woman (June 25, Donetsk)
The Sign (June 26–27, Donetsk)
Venya, Katya, and Marina (June 28, Donetsk and Mar`ïnka)
Remember, you were telling me about your Grandpa Pavel?
And now the orcs have banned fireworks
Yet Another Cease-Fire
Update
The Police Are with the People (July 1, Donetsk)
New billboards appeared that morning in Donetsk
Also that morning
When the minister of internal affairs is an active Facebook user
Olya’s mother-in-law used to tell this story
I have to be happy (July 5, Donetsk)
The question “How was your day today?” is now considered indecent (July 7, Donetsk)
Hell in Ukrainian is peklo (July 11, Donetsk)
Do you know what burnout is? (July 15, Donetsk)
To Be a Man (July 17)
The airplane (July 17)
In all likelihood, they were alive (July 18, Donetsk)
The “peaceful protesters” are glad
…and another thing about languages (July 18, Donetsk)
The provocative Russian poet Orlusha writes (July 19, Donetsk)
Assholes
The Rat King (July 22, Donetsk)
Astro (July 25, Horlivka)
A Civil “Conflict” (July 26, Donetsk)
This war will definitely be conceptualized
Who’s the boss of Donetsk?
The Game (July 28, Slovyansk)
The Checkpoint (July 29, Luhansk)
Today, they shelled my block, where I live (July 29, Donetsk)
I catch myself thinking that I’m still treating her like a child
Severe hangover syndrome used to help with everything
The citizen of the Russian Federation (July 30, Donetsk)
There’s nothing they won’t do (July 31, Donetsk)
Elche. Tarragona. Barcelona. Figueres.
Girkin has forbidden cursing
Lyusya and Grandpa have been in Berdyansk for over two weeks now (August 3, Berdyansk)
We’re talking (August 3, A kitchen in Donetsk)
It feels like they’ve already stolen everything (August 3, Donetsk)
Granny Shura’s ninety-five years old (August 4, Donetsk)
Yesterday, the Ukrainian Security Service (August 4, Mariupol, Kyiv, Donetsk)
Good News
They’re Not Refugees (August 5, the sky, Kyiv)
The citizen of the RF, also known as the prime minister of the Duh-P-R, comrade Borodai (August 7)
A mortar has a three-mile kill zone (August 7, Donetsk)
The Anti-Aircraft Gun (August 8, Donetsk)
Classified Ad
“Shakhtar,” he says (August 9, Lviv, Donetsk)
I don’t like carnations (August 9, Donetsk)
The terrorists hit a penal colony with a shell (August 10, Donetsk)
Women are giving birth in basements
Not Enough (August 11)
So Happy (August 11, Donetsk)
We call explosions “booms.”
Antratsyt (August 11, Antratsyt)
Let’s call that story from Antratsyt fake
War isn’t how it’s described in books
“Hey, you heard that over in Crimea, on the Kerch bridge, there are thirty-five hundred cars stuck in a traffic jam?” (August 15)
I don’t know what things will be like ten minutes from now
The “DPR” has instituted corporal punishment (August 17)
The terrorists shelled a refugee convoy (August 17, Luhansk)
Steinmeier, the German minister of foreign affairs (August 18, Berlin)
And you know something? (August 18)
My dad says that you’re old
All war diaries are histories of suffering
Afterword
Notes
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