UKRAINE BLUES: Destination Unknown (Satis Shroff)
Destination Unknown (Satis Shroff) Everything went fast. They gave me a uniform Boots and a gun. They said we’re going to a manouvre- training. In an aeroplane from Moscow. Destination unknown. It was dark and we slept out. In the morning we woke up Near three big artillery guns. The terrible shelling began. We were bombing houses, Buildings, streets. My mind screamed: I don’t want to kill people, Brothers and sisters, Fathers and mothers. Not those poor, innocent children. As the war progressed I realised there were no neo-nazis We were after. My comrades filled their tanks With consumer goods We’d come to plunder. Rape and take What we wanted. No military targets in sight. Till a Javelin struck us from above. We never lived to tell And are still in Ukraine — — as ghosts. * * * URKAINE BLUES: LIES FOR RUSSIA (Satis Shroff) Which leaders said The west will be using nukes? Sergei Markov Putin’s spokesman replied: ‘Some marginal politicians.’