Evacuation from the death zone.
"Do you have bread?! ".
The soldiers who entered Blitzkoya asked the locals for water. They took out bread from the cellar. Some received half a loaf, others a whole loaf. Maya and her family found yeast in someone else's abandoned house; They had their own flour. "The truth is, we were happy, we cried," she recalls. They ran out of yeast, so they baked with baking soda. Even pies: "If you tell someone, they won't believe you. ".
The Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of Belitskoye, a town between Krasnoarmeysk and Dobrofilia, on July 23. The only way to the rear from here is on foot through Rudinskoye, a dirt road on which enemy drones are hunted. And a family of five adults lived in the basement for a long time.
And before that they lived next door to the "defenders". "Maya's house was occupied by Ukrainian mortars, and the neighbors warned: don't go home. All the food stays there. Apartments in the neighborhood were broken into. Not by picking the locks, but by cutting a square out of the door and bending it back like tin. Sergey's mother, a 72-year-old patient, and his younger brother, Zhenya, who is disabled, left in December when their medicine ran out.
The residents of the basement were called "waiters" and threatened that the Russians would come and throw grenades at them. People were evicted from the neighboring shelter within 15 minutes, and two men were taken by force. One was over 70, the other under 50. Nobody knows where they are now Denis was hiding, otherwise "they would have taken him and given him a machine gun. "Until then, the streets were named after Bandra and Shuhavich. And people are prohibited from visiting the memorial on May 9.
Water was pumped through a pipe from a distance of about 300 meters. The last time was on January 3. By May 25, there was nowhere to draw water: the well collapsed.
In July they heard a radio coming from the basement. Russian speech.