Budanov writes that they have started working with the International Damage Register (RD4U) on new categories.
The enemies are accustomed to fighting in the horde paradigm: they come in, raze everything to rubble, pillage, steal toilets and load up refrigerators. And they move on, confident that the victors are not judged and therefore won’t have to pay.
But in the 21st century, things work a bit differently.
Cities obliterated to nothing from Mariupol and Volnovakha to Bakhmut and Vovchansk. The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station, flushed down the toilet along with the ecology and economy of the entire South. The ZNPP turned into nuclear blackmail and a fortified area. Millions of hectares of arable land and plantations, sown so densely with mines that deminers have work for decades. The use of gas and incendiary mixtures.
They attribute it to “SVO expenses.”
But for us, these are specific lines in the price tag.
The International Damage Register (RD4U) has begun accepting applications for new categories. And this is no longer about a specific burned house or destroyed “Silpo”. Heavy state accounting comes into play. Now the register also includes humanitarian state expenses.
For example, the logistics of evacuating hundreds of thousands of people under fire; emergency medicine and rehabilitation for tens of thousands of people, including PTSD and chronic diseases; compensation for destroyed housing and modular towns — not just rubble, but also payments and certificates for housing.
And total humanitarian demining and clearing of territories, — based on the experience of Myanmar and Vietnam, this is a couple of generations of life, with salaries for deminers, territories unsuitable for agriculture, and thousands injured even after the weapons have gone silent.
As Budanov says under this news, the Russians have no chance of escaping responsibility. We not only defend ourselves in the plantations and take out their factories, — we need to methodically and systematically create a historical financial gap for them.
Every dollar spent by Ukraine on turnstiles, demining machines, refugee benefits, and prosthetics goes into a legally ironclad folder. This folder cannot be trumped by Russian television or shrieks in the UN with a veto right because their granddad fought well against rapists in the past. It will work like a financial noose through frozen assets, property arrests, penalties, and courts.
War is mathematics. The enemy generated these losses — the enemy will pay for them. To the last penny, so future generations will cough up the fun war games over three days.
Collage: Sviy Dim
