A Russian Soldier - Un soldado ruso
A Russian Soldier They had been transported to the war zone the previous night under the cover of darkness. Exhausted, he had fallen asleep with his hands resting on his weapon—a proton ejector capable of destroying everything in its path. He missed Moscow, and in his dreams images of his grandfather blended with scenes of war. His grandfather had been a young Ukrainian soldier who fought against the Russian invasion of 2022. He died in the Donbas, in the very place where he himself was now fighting. The consequences of that war had been devastating. NATO's intervention had internationalised the conflict and, as a result, Russia had lost more than half of its territory, while the Russian diaspora had left its cities as ghostly shells of what they had once been. Now, sixty years later, Russia was once again expanding its borders through military offensives that reduced to rubble the buildings that had remained standing after the previous war. He awoke with a start. He could have s...