About the book: 2024 / "Diary Z" - the story of how a man, shocked by the message about the beginning of the Northern Military District, did not rush to Upper Lars in the company of "non-twinists" , but crossed the Izvarino border crossing and voluntarily found himself in the LIR engulfed in flames. Not as a soldier, but as a journalist. This is not a chronicle of military events, but the revelation of the author, his diary: about himself, about people, about the war. The war, which he hated, but which opened up a world of virtues for him. The war that changed him. Which changed everyone. The book covers the period from March 2022 to July 2023. The spring of terrible urban battles, the summer of victories and triumphs in the liberated territories, the autumn of dramatic losses and the depression of retreats. Happy incidents in the war, conversations with supporters and opponents of the Russian World, a difficult moral choice: kill the enemy or remain a journalist, shooting combat from the inside, working with the “Wagners” in Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), unparalleled feats of our soldiers and civilians of Donbass. This book will be remembered by you for its bright and lively portraits of its heroes. It's not about guns, it's about people.