{"id":18286,"date":"2023-05-31T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2023-05-31T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:29:08","slug":"first-hand-account-of-russian-invasion-translated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18286","title":{"rendered":"First-hand Account of Russian Invasion Translated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Russian paratrooper, who has sought asylum in France, wrote a lengthy account of experience in the invasion of Ukraine last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/russian-speaking-airmen-ukraine-translation\/\">Members of the\u00a0Language-Enabled Airman Program<\/a>, part of the Air Force Culture and Language Center, worked on translating the work into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It was a difficult task: [author] Filatyev wrote in a stream-of-consciousness style filled with military jargon, typos, and colloquial expressions that do not translate perfectly into English.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The account describes lousy equipment, lack of supplies, and poor communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;&#8216;Who will be accountable for these lives lost and the wounded?&#8217; Filatyev wrote about a suspected incident of friendly fire. &#8216;After all, the reason for their deaths was not the professionalism of the Ukrainian army, but the mess in ours.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He claims Russian is destroying itself with greed and envy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian paratrooper, who has sought asylum in France, wrote a lengthy account of experience in the invasion of Ukraine last year. Members of the\u00a0Language-Enabled Airman Program, part of the Air Force Culture and Language Center, worked on translating the work into English. &#8220;It was a difficult task: [author] Filatyev wrote in a stream-of-consciousness style &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First-hand Account of Russian Invasion Translated<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[2445,3187,4084],"class_list":["post-18286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-russia","tag-translation","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18287,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}