New resistance icon Mykolaïv reveals his traitors

Several missiles crash almost daily into specific targets in the port city. Precision shots made possible by informers. While the authorities encourage denunciation, the inhabitants survive, cut off from everything.

Originally, this article, written in August, was commissioned by a French magazine, which ultimately rejected it for the reasons explained in the author’s column—which can be read here and is published alongside this article in our print edition (Le Regard Libre No. 90), to be released this Friday, November 4.

At 4:01 a.m. on Friday morning, Mykolaiv was jolted awake. This has been the daily routine since February 24 for the 200,000 residents who have remained in the port city, who have had only 21 nights of respite since the war began.

At the muffled explosion, Viktor jumped out of bed and ran down to his basement. A few minutes later,