Aftermath

**Aftermath** is a sixth chapter of JuiceBlood and JuiceBlood Prologue. It was released on May 27, 2022.

## Story

*May 18, 1993; Russia, Moscow*. Dmitry talks in his thoughts about the special operation in which he participated and the meeting with the “director”, which is scheduled for 9 am. Unexpectedly, passing through the streets of Moscow, Bratislav and Yaroslava join him. After the meeting, Dmitry and Yaroslava are going to go to New York to perform, and Bratislava will go to his homeland – Yugoslavia. The trio reaches the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, where they take the elevator up to the designated cabinet. There they meet the Boss and Cristofor. When Grachev and Lebed, who were also in the office, left, Dmitry began to see hallucinations. But they passed when Constantine came into the office. The meeting began with the news that the goals of specoperation failed. Cristofor explains: “*... what happened 2 weeks ago is a gross mistake of our and Ukrainian Foreign Ministries. <...> When working on the script, we did not think about external factors. Russia. Russia has most of its troops in Transnistria*” Cristofor also mentions that after the theft of documents, Ukrainian and Moldovan forces clashed with Russian ones: “*Only yesterday the fighting for the outskirts of Tiraspol ended*” Cristofor is waiting for a number of summits with delegates, in the end there will be a speech at the rostrum of the UN General Assembly. Dmitry, before leaving Cristofor, asked him how he found out about the main characters. Cristofor replied that Dmitry and others were introduced as “military personnel of the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States". Cristofor goes to the hotel "Ukraine". Dmitry realizes that the Boss is lying and begins to come into conflict with him. The boss shuts Dmitry up, accusing him of incompetence and failure of the task. The boss gives the last chance in the form of a task in the seaport of “*one of the developed countries*”.

*June 18-25; USA, New York*. The 47th session of the UN General Assembly begins. Cristofor Cantemir is summoned to the podium to explain the situation in Moldova. He stands on the podium and begins a speech: “*Moldova, as a state and a people, is an object of independence, and cannot be subject to an external factor, such as the conquest of territories, the establishment of its own rules ... <...> Just a couple of years ago we got rid of the red shackles with our Romanian brothers, but it turns out not everything is so simple. Anti-government forces, which are separatists on Moldovan soil, have taken over cities such as Tiraspol and Comrat. Under their influence there are more than half a million citizens who get along on 6 thousand square kilometers. Their standard of living can only overtake the countries of the third world. <...> I call on the UN member states to advocate for a resolution that implies assistance to the Republic of Moldova in preserving territorial integrity and humanitarian assistance to the affected subjects of the Republic as a result of the occupation*.” Many countries voted for the help, including Russia. About the same month, the American entrepreneur is interested in the union of the United States, Russia and Japan. A young acquaintance offers him help.

## Characters

### "Intelnational"

* Dmitry
* Yaroslava
* Bratislav
* Constantine
* Boss

### Russia

#### Armed Forces

* Grachev
* Lebed

#### The delegation

* Vorontsov
* The delegats

### The delegation of Moldova

* Cristofor
* The delegats