<img src="https://www.repstatic.it/content/nazionale/img/2022/05/16/172246209-12281449-03a5-4a87-b74b-5e5285a698e7.jpg" alt=" Kharkiv, Ukraine (Foto di John Moore/Getty Images)”/>
And so unreal soldiers also participate in this war. The mannequins positioned in some areas north of Kharkhiv are armed with fake rifles, and try – in their deceptive fixity – to disorient the enemy. And it’s not the invented dead who wanted a certain counter-tale. They are fake snipers, non-existent knights – as in Calvino’s novel. Soulless armor, hollow helmets:
In the white armor with the iridescent crest there was no one inside.
And the effect of this segment of the war fought even in the space of the probable is mocking, and disturbing.