At the beginning of the war, people believed that everything would end quickly, no one expected that the city would be destroyed by 99%. Then people were not allowed out of the city. There were fights on the outskirts of the city.
In the beginning, we turned off the electricity, gas and water, turned off the connection, we could not get through to our relatives and friends. Gathered the family.
Then there was the problem with the cars. The military occupied the garage cooperative, bombs flew there from the Russians, the cars in the garages burned down. Therefore, we had to find a person with a car and who has spare tires. Because outside the city all the roads were broken.
And also, in order to leave the city, it was necessary to collect a column of cars. If you go alone, you can be shot. So we were looking for more people.
There were a lot of organizational moments to leave the city.
If you are driving a car and you do not have white rags on the side mirrors and there is no inscription "PEOPLE" or "CHILDREN", both Russians and Ukrainians could shoot at you, because it is not clear who you are.
Because the military, both Russian and Ukrainian, often took away cars from local residents.
How do you feel about the fact that the Ukrainian military took up defensive positions in the city? Who fired on the people who tried to leave the city?
We were very angry when we realized that the military took up defensive positions in the city and now our city will become the center of hostilities. When tanks began to be placed between residential buildings, we realized that now they were hiding behind us and if we want to live, we need to do something.
If you are driving a car and you do not have white rags on the side mirrors and there is no inscription "PEOPLE" or "CHILDREN", both Russians and Ukrainians could shoot at you, because it is not clear who you are.
It was more terrible when you were driving and shells were falling around, you didn’t know if you could leave or not.
At the beginning of the war, people believed that everything would end quickly, no one expected that the city would be destroyed by 99%. Then people were not allowed out of the city. There were fights on the outskirts of the city.
In the beginning, we turned off the electricity, gas and water, turned off the connection, we could not get through to our relatives and friends. Gathered the family.
Then there was the problem with the cars. The military occupied the garage cooperative, bombs flew there from the Russians, the cars in the garages burned down. Therefore, we had to find a person with a car and who has spare tires. Because outside the city all the roads were broken.
And also, in order to leave the city, it was necessary to collect a column of cars. If you go alone, you can be shot. So we were looking for more people.
There were a lot of organizational moments to leave the city.
Just to make it clear, it is the Russians who are shooting people leaving, correct?
If you are driving a car and you do not have white rags on the side mirrors and there is no inscription "PEOPLE" or "CHILDREN", both Russians and Ukrainians could shoot at you, because it is not clear who you are.
Because the military, both Russian and Ukrainian, often took away cars from local residents.
How do you feel about the fact that the Ukrainian military took up defensive positions in the city? Who fired on the people who tried to leave the city?
We were very angry when we realized that the military took up defensive positions in the city and now our city will become the center of hostilities. When tanks began to be placed between residential buildings, we realized that now they were hiding behind us and if we want to live, we need to do something.
If you are driving a car and you do not have white rags on the side mirrors and there is no inscription "PEOPLE" or "CHILDREN", both Russians and Ukrainians could shoot at you, because it is not clear who you are.
It was more terrible when you were driving and shells were falling around, you didn’t know if you could leave or not.