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Soviet symbolism abounds. In that early scene, the player swoops past the Call of the Motherland statue in a flying car. There is also a huge brutalist skyscraper modelled on Stalin’s “Seven Sisters” high-rises that loom over Moscow to this day. According to media reports, the game's development was funded by Russian enterprises," Bornyakov continues. "Therefore, we call for all users worldwide to avoid this game. We also want to emphasise that the game developers have not publicly condemned the Putin regime and the bloody war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine."

Oleksandr Bornyakov, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, has said that he will be sending a letter to Sony, Microsoft, and Valve requesting that digital versions of Atomic Heart not be sold in Ukraine and for its distribution in other countries to be limited. There was a haze in the cell. It was unbearably hot, between 35-40 degrees Celsius. I would lay on the floor up against the door to get a bit of fresh air,” he says. This statement by Prigozhin is not true,” Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the eastern grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces told CNN on Tuesday. “I've just been in touch with the commander of one of the brigades that are defending the city. I can confidently state that the Ukrainian defense forces control a much larger percentage of the territory of Bakhmut."Asked whether the battle for the city was still ongoing and whether its defence was worth all the lives that have been lost, he said: “We don’t have simple questions any more, as well as we don’t have simple answers. The Wagner founder has been known to make incorrect claims about his forces’ advance on the ground in Ukraine. Last week, he posted a grainy video raising a flag at dawn, saying Bakhmut had "been taken," despite ongoing fighting in and around the city. His claim was seen as a "pretty desperate" attempt, Western officials said. Polyakov, a successful businessman originally from the northern Russian city of Petrozavodsk, arrived in the separatist-controlled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in the spring of 2015 on a humanitarian mission. Republicans, it turns out, have become far more dovish on that conflict and in how they view the United States' role in the world more generally. The flag uses the colors blue and yellow as a reference to the coat of arms of the city of Lviv. On the flag, the yellow and blue bands symbolize a blue sky over fields of golden wheat (Ukraine is one of the world’s largest wheat producers).

On December 27, the biggest prisoner swap since the conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted in 2014 took place, with 74 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians exchanged for 238 separatists. Polyakov, who says he was targeted for his pro-Ukrainian views, ended up in a makeshift isolation cell somewhere in the Luhansk area. However, even as these financial and political realities begin to bite, Ukraine can take solace from the fact that Russia’s combat attrition is close to, if not more than, 100 per cent of its combat manpower from 2021/22. The tough “kontraktniki” professional soldiers of the pre-invasion Russian army have been wiped out, and Ukrainians now face armies of unwilling conscripts and the dregs of the Russian prison system. Ukraine has been bloodied too, but every soldier in its army knows that he fighting to preserve his own home, his own family and ultimately himself from the horrors of Russian occupation: the task of steeling his heart is comparatively easy to perform.

The robots were first spotted in a combat trailer, released for Gamescom last year (above), which includes two female robots dancing, before one is penetrated by the other, accompanied by Russian pop music. It's not only unnecessarily sexualised, but uses sapphic imagery in contrast to Russia's anti-LGBT laws. More pernicious is the suggestion that the game is full of sly insults toward Ukraine. Early on, the player can kill giant wandering pigs – one charge made online is that this is a reference to “pigg”, a Russian slur against Ukrainians. The presence of drones carrying flowers is meanwhile interpreted as a reference to Russian drones in Ukraine – colloquially known as “geraniums”. In general, the Flag of Ukraine emoji 🇺🇦 is used to refer to Ukraine, Ukrainian people, and Ukrainian culture. It is this indominable Ukrainian fighting spirit which matters. It saved the nation of Ukraine right at the start of Putin’s invasion and it is still doing so today. It doesn’t matter which foreign nations the money and munitions come from, so long as they come. Polyakov's own ordeal began on March 15, 2015 after holding negotiations with separatist leaders in the city of Luhansk.