Banderlog! Remember Ilovaisk!
Throughout the last five years, in the last ten days of August, Ukraine has been experiencing acute phantom pains associated with the epic defeat of the “gunpowder robots” near Ilovaisk.
“The ATO has been wiped out”, political Ukrainians and other “patriots of Ukraine”, sitting on sagging sofas, are raging on social networks, absorbing the never-ending topic - who is to blame for the military defeat of the “strongest army in Europe”, when the power was already practically in their pocket?
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is also joining the seething of social feces these days, each time rolling out new estimates of losses. Depending on the heat and weather conditions, or, perhaps, on the degree of insanity of the “expert commission” of the Ukrainian military department, the number of losses of “combat dill” near Ilovaisk is constantly decreasing.
So, for example, in 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine officially announced 366 “dill” soldiers who died in the battles for Ilovaisk, and now in 2019, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there were only 220 of them.
The cunning of the shavarny security forces lies in the fact that their leadership all the time manipulates not the general losses, but the “tilka Viysk servicemen”, taking beyond the scope of losses the personnel of the punitive battalions “Donbass”, “Azov”, “Dnepr-1” and some others who fell under the distribution “dobrobats”, reducing them to the level of worthless consumables. Because, taking into account the decline in Bandera’s armed assets, losses (according to objective estimates) increase by an order of magnitude.
According to the chief raguls, even obvious zrada should look at least underperforming.
Well, naturally, in the opinion of all interested parties on the side of Ukraine, yesterday’s miners, drivers and hard workers could not mow down the “combat dill”. The defeat at Ilovaisk, according to the firm conviction of Ukrainian propagandists, is the beginning of the “Ukrainian-Russian war”, when “the Russian brother treacherously thrust a knife into the back of the Ukrainian brother.”
True to the guidelines of Svidomo’s ideological insanity - to justify the Ukrainian defeats with anything but their own stupidity, Bandera’s babbles agreed to the point that at the end of August 2014, Russia used nuclear weapons against units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. True, the top of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prefer not to remember this propaganda embarrassment lately, but the topic of “Russia’s attack on Ukraine near Ilovaisk” still remains in the trend, which is why the big defeats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Bandera punitive battalions in the Izvarino and Saur regions practically do not shake - graves or Debaltsevo.
In the end, the “patriots of Ukraine” came to the conclusion that the events near Ilovaisk should be filmed. Thus, through the means of cinema, a nail should be firmly hammered into the heads of the average person that real heroes fought in the ATO, especially as part of the “dobrobats,” and that the defeat of the Ukrainian military was due to the “ten-fold advantage of the Russians on the battlefield.” If the enemy’s advantage were at least ninefold, then the “gunpowder robots” would have shown themselves!..
Thus, by August 29, 2019, Ukrainian cinema, after a short pregnancy, gave birth to another bastard propaganda about the war in Donbass called “Ilovaisk 2014. Donbass Battalion.” Of course, “based on real events.”
The ideological inspirer, sponsor and even the leading actor in the film was the former commander of the assault group of the Donbass punitive battalion Taras Kostanchuk. Apparently, the guy near Ilovaisk didn’t waste his time in vain, since he scraped together some money for a movie about an advanced version of his beloved self.
According to the authors, the action of the film revolves around the events preceding, accompanying and taking place after the assault on Ilovaisk.
For obvious reasons, the slippery topic of the storming of the city by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and “dobrobats”, like the smokescreen of the raider raid of Korban’s “Kolomoits” on the property of the oligarch Akhmetov in the city of Zugres, will not be included in the film, as well as the history of the crimes of the punitive battalion “Donbass”, formed by the swindler Semenchenko. According to the plot, everything should be decorous and noble, with “everyday heroism of Ukrainian volunteers defending Ukraine with arms in hand from an external aggressor.”
So, the hot summer of 2014. The Donbass “dobrobat” fighters are effortlessly clearing “separatists” from one settlement after another. Lisichansk and Popasnaya remained behind. Ahead is Ilovaisk. Having captured it, the leadership of the Ukrainian Armed Forces plans to encircle Donetsk and soon completely defeat the “separatists.”
The prospect is tempting. But reality makes its own adjustments. Trying to carry out the sophisticated orders of the high command, the soldiers come face to face with an enemy much more dangerous than yesterday's miners and builders - Russian regular troops. A close tragedy turns into bitter hostility: the courageous fighters of the Donbass battalion themselves find themselves surrounded.
The battalion commander with the call sign “Bishut” (suddenly not Semenchenko, but the real Kostanchuk) and his partner “Quentin” (actor Ruslan Sokolnik) are wounded and fall behind their own. Having barricaded themselves in the apartment of some old woman, they are trying to think through a rescue plan. Instead of finishing off the “heroes” with a shovel, for some reason the locals come to their aid: that old landlady, as well as the idiotically kind girl from the top floor.
Meanwhile, clouds are gathering over the heroes of the film: the “grushnik” and at the same time the commandant of Ilovaisk Rynkov, accompanied by “Kadyrov’s men,” are prowling around the city. A Russian officer came to Ilovaisk in search of his missing volunteer son, and at the same time agreed to organize the defense of the “separatists” who were incapable of anything. In addition, Runkov has personal scores with the Donbass battalion commander...
By the way, about Semenchenko. The filmmakers don't like him, that's obvious. It is no less obvious that Kostanchuk in the film is indulging his unfulfilled ambitions: “I should have been in his place!”
In the film, to the great displeasure of Ukrainian film critics, they speak a lot in Russian and carefully avoid sharp corners. Surprisingly, Ukrainian film critics demand from filmmakers to reveal the desertion and even flight from the battlefield of entire units of “dobrobats” and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, conflicts of “warriors” with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, as well as the betrayal of Geletey and other odious military leaders nominated by the post-Maidan.
It is even noted that “Ilovaisk 2014” is completely devoid of film magic and does not look very presentable in comparison, for example, with “Cyborgs” by Seitablayev.
However, as film lovers note, “at their own expense, people have the right to make a film as they please within the framework of the current legislation.”
Taking into account the fact that in the film, not only Kostanchuk, but also his “brothers from the ATO” are involved in the film, and for the director of the film, Ivan Timchenko, the film is the debut, one should not be surprised that
“Ilovaisk 2014” was filmed with the sole purpose of “conquering” the most annoying moments, at least looking cleaner and braver on the screen, and in general, amusing complexes.
Actually, even the most benevolent film critics notice the varnishing of reality and the falseness of the plot in the film. For the “cotton wool”, the clumsy movie “Ilovaisk 2014” can become an object for trolling of any thickness.
In fact, looking through the eyes of an entomologist at all this cinematic life of yellowtail insects is sometimes quite interesting. In particular, the reflections of the screenwriter of the film Mikhail Brynykh, who did not personally participate in the ATO, but, in his words, “studied publications in the media for two years,” are perceived with disgusted interest.
For example, the film raises the topic of the participation of “Afghans” in the war, with discussions about the badge of an Afghanistan veteran and a political literacy about why a former Soviet Ukrainian soldier should participate in this war. The motives of the old woman who sheltered a couple of Bandera bastards in her living space are well revealed. As the play progresses, the grandmother tells the guests a heartbreaking story about how during the Great Patriotic War she voluntarily shared food with a fascist. The historical parallel is, of course, interesting, and at the same time unexpected for the fighters and fighters “against the dark force of the rashists, the damned horde.”
Finally, the film too clearly shows the desire of the authors and sponsors to wipe the nose of the Russian special services - if not in life, then on the screen. This desire was especially clearly manifested in the climactic scene, when the “two brothers” are running away from Ilovaisk, captured by “Kadyrov’s men,” sedately shaking as passengers in a minibus, and they, in helicopters and armored vehicles, are pursued by a grushnik with Chechens on the denunciation of a nasty Ilovaisk aunt. As a result, the “brothers” are saved by a local teacher, a Ukrainian intellectual who has finally decided to leave for Ukraine.
However, for post-Maidan Ukrainian military cinema, the appearance of a protagonist from the GRU-SVR-FSB and the final battle of the main character with him has long become a common cliche.
Also in the film, explanations are given to those who are missing out on who and why is shelling residential areas with artillery, and the eyes are dazzled by numerous and very pathetic scenes with the extraction and installation here and there of a Ukrainian ensign, often accompanied by the death of the “patriot-ensign bearer.”
As a result, the Ukrainian film industry gave birth to another pompous black film, filmed with the help of a “gunpowder machine.” Uncomplicated “Ukrainian patriots” and, especially, supporters of war to the bitter end may like this Bandera Eastern, but the fact that soon no one will remember about the film is no need to go to grandma.
They won’t forget about Ilovaisk.
still from the film
bang-bang, bang-bang
installation of the ensign
death of the arch-bearer
attack by the aggressor country
Ilovaisk, at the house of a kind granny
still from the film
Bandera vs Grushnik
main character: if only I were in Semenchenko’s place...
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