>>1985975I'm fine. Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
Rough weather overall so far; headwind all the way to Kharkiv oblast, and now it's rainy season. Some of the worst weather I've had on a bike trip. It is March after all.
A couple of days ago some military dudes driving an inconspicuous-looking van flagged me down in the village of Mohyliv in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. They immediately demanded my documents, no explanation given, but they quickly lost interest when I unzipped my German passport. I'm pretty sure those guys were recruiters looking for young men evading the draft. No further hick-ups with the army or police since.
I'm in Kryvyi Rih now, a heavily polluted industrial city in the heart of Ukraine. About 60km from the Dnipro, where Russian and Ukrainian troops can wave at each other on opposite shores of the river. Chilling here for two nights. Lots of rain tomorrow. The weather should massively improve on Thursday though. Looking forward to some early spring days, but the horrible roads will remain.
Kryvyi Rih is the home town of Zelenskyi. As such, it's a popular target for Putin to vent his anger. Got hit by a rocket only six days ago.
>>1985242You're way overestimating the risks of travel to Ukraine. It's not like I'm crusing along the Kupiansk-Svatove-Kreminna line. But yeah
>The Russians... I don't even wanna think about it...That was my first thought as well when they showed up at night.
>if these guys are Russians larping as Ukrainian military they'll shoot me on the spotI dissociated hard in that situation.
The soldier who called the police kept saying "mototsykl" (motorcycle) on the phone. They were quite baffled once they realized it was a bicycle.
