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💔 This is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read from a Ukrainian soldier.
Please read every word. We owe them that.
"Please remember us.
We won't be the ones shouting about ourselves when we come home, because we have no strength left. And we probably never will.
Most of us won't do anything. We'll come back quietly and try not to be noticed. We'll be dirty, sad, reeking, and we'll only talk to each other.
We're so exhausted that we no longer feel like human beings. We're just labels of our former selves.
A part of us will stay there forever, and we'll never truly exist in the same world as you again. We understand that.
So please, remember this: we stayed there not because someone sent us, and not because we wanted to. It was simply the price that had to be paid.
That's what that choice cost—the whole of you.
Please remember that we don't wish you any harm. We don't want anything from you. And, to be honest, we're fucked up ourselves."
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