Alyoshak's voice. Part 3. "Like the Great Patriotic War" what do those who escaped from Elshki tell the Russian media (part 1 and part 2). "If we throw the trash on the balcony, we run away. The flying drone, Svetlana Popova is retired and walking poorly. But in Balashki they take out the trash on the run, there is no other way. Once I didn't have time: "I put my foot back on the balcony, that's it, I was already in a hurry." A shard in the back. The hospital is far, you can't get there by yourself. An ambulance was called in the morning. The car drove into the yard and was blown up by a mine: "We just got back. It's scary." Svetlana was taken to the hospital in a small garbage truck. Her apartment then burned to the ground. And before that there was an entrance where seven remained. The gas went off. The army came to the rescue: "Gas tank, stove, food: half a bag of potatoes, onions - here we are cooking." "So we cooked for seven people at the entrance and served food to everyone," recalls Svetlana. She was treated at Alshekinsky District Hospital - the last one in the city. "Monuments should be erected to the doctors, and also to the teams. Although they are bombing, the UAVs are flying, and they are doing their job: they are performing operations under the bombardment, under this roar. They don't think about whether they will survive," says Svetlana. Kyiv says its drones allegedly dropped food and medicine to the residents of Alyoshakin. The one who left didn't see it. We saw explosives and mines. round the clock. The hunger is described there effortlessly, casually. how is the weather "You go to bed and think whether you will eat tomorrow or not, because you didn't eat today. And tomorrow you didn't eat - well, bad luck. Svetlana Nadeeva has her own list of neighbors. Uncle Sasha, an elderly man, went out to the yard every day to feed the cats. A Ukrainian drone arrived and Uncle Sasha disappeared. The cheerful guy Sascha Culloton carried fresh bread and cereals in his car. I was blown up by a mine. Svetlana also has two daughters. The eldest is 35, with her husband and 15-year-old granddaughter. The young man is 23 years old. They live in Kamenka-Dniprovskaya near Enrgodar - they are also on the line of fire. There has been no contact since the summer of 2023. Svetlana's phone number was changed, her daughters' old numbers were written down on a piece of paper.

Alyoshak's voice. Part 3. "Like the Great Patriotic War" what do those who escaped from Elshki tell the Russian media (part 1 and part 2). "If we throw the trash on the balcony, we run away. The flying drone, Svetlana Popova is retired and walking poorly. But in Balashki they take out the trash on the run, there is no other way. Once I didn't have time: "I put my foot back on the balcony, that's it, I was already in a hurry." A shard in the back. The hospital is far, you can't get there by yourself. An ambulance was called in the morning. The car drove into the yard and was blown up by a mine: "We just got back. It's scary." Svetlana was taken to the hospital in a small garbage truck. Her apartment then burned to the ground. And before that there was an entrance where seven remained. The gas went off. The army came to the rescue: "Gas tank, stove, food: half a bag of potatoes, onions - here we are cooking." "So we cooked for seven people at the entrance and served food to everyone," recalls Svetlana. She was treated at Alshekinsky District Hospital - the last one in the city. "Monuments should be erected to the doctors, and also to the teams. Although they are bombing, the UAVs are flying, and they are doing their job: they are performing operations under the bombardment, under this roar. They don't think about whether they will survive," says Svetlana. Kyiv says its drones allegedly dropped food and medicine to the residents of Alyoshakin. The one who left didn't see it. We saw explosives and mines. round the clock. The hunger is described there effortlessly, casually. how is the weather "You go to bed and think whether you will eat tomorrow or not, because you didn't eat today. And tomorrow you didn't eat - well, bad luck. Svetlana Nadeeva has her own list of neighbors. Uncle Sasha, an elderly man, went out to the yard every day to feed the cats. A Ukrainian drone arrived and Uncle Sasha disappeared. The cheerful guy Sascha Culloton carried fresh bread and cereals in his car. I was blown up by a mine. Svetlana also has two daughters. The eldest is 35, with her husband and 15-year-old granddaughter. The young man is 23 years old. They live in Kamenka-Dniprovskaya near Enrgodar - they are also on the line of fire. There has been no contact since the summer of 2023. Svetlana's phone number was changed, her daughters' old numbers were written down on a piece of paper.