The government has never given me anything except a Kalashnikov. Why should I be a patriot?

What are poor mobilized soldiers talking about? Corruption and inequality. Reporting from the frontline by a mobilized Kyivan journalist

Kyivan journalist Artem Ilyin, originally from Mariupol (hence the reference to Azovstal) published this quite interesting post to facebook yesterday:

Today marks one month since I got caught in the web of the military training center.

Life has changed dramatically.

You are constantly either marching somewhere, standing in line, or sleeping. But this will be about something else.

I found myself in a social environment I haven't experienced since working in the rail fastening workshop and guarding Azovstal 25-30 years ago.

The effect is compounded by the fact that the people around me are from a completely different culture and traditions. Mostly residents of rural regions in the western part of Ukraine, not from the industrial east (although there are some).