Lugansk's Notes
“Friends, I managed to get out of Lugansk. I traveled by car, with difficulty, of course, and on a tin, I would say, the road. I will tell everything later. There is practically no Internet here. How I will decide something with him, I will describe everything hell has turned Lugansk lately ...
So, friends, glad that I am again with you. Right now I will publish my earlier promised notes about what is really going on in Lugansk, and what I experienced personally with my wife and mother-in-law in the period from 3 to 11 in August, because after that I managed to break free and to the north ...
So, the promised memories and notes ...
3 August - 5 August. In reality, the reviews on paper began to write 07.08.2014, because to keep everything in memory until the lights are turned on, there are no forces anymore - you will forget something, you will miss something ...
Starting from 2 in August, the city lives in the most severe blockade. No water, no light, in fact, no garbage is taken out. People collect water from fire hydrants and wells, stand in lines at water intakes, and sometimes bring water to water carriers. The queue for water is just unreal! There is actually no normal food either. Prices for everything soared to an unrealistic level!
There is also no connection, the Internet. There is no connection any - neither the city telephone network, nor Kyivstar, nor MTS, etc. etc. Every day there are fierce battles somewhere on the outskirts of the city. Since I am in a complete information vacuum, I can’t say exactly where the battles are going, but it feels like somewhere in the area of Bolshaya Vergunka or Krasny Yar.
People on the streets became angry and violent in their total mass. However, a lot of people remained in the city. Anyone who will tell you that Lugansk is a half-empty city - spit in his face! That's bullshit! A lot of children ...
And yes, in the city, armored vehicles and Grad installations are already driving around in the open. As always, shelling and real hell begin in the evenings and mornings ...
6 August. The city began to gradually sink into the abyss of a humanitarian catastrophe. Water began to carry on vodovozkah on schedule. Behind her, of course, kilometer queues. The queues are extremely aggressive and heated to the limit due to the lack of any information about what is happening in the city and beyond its borders. Everything is built on gossip and guesswork.
The militia, who are everywhere trying to reassure people that the National Guard is not in place, despite the constant rumors that it has already taken the city, controls the delivery of water in some places.
He spent the morning with the mother-in-law for the preservation of what was actually beginning to disappear from the products. I had to go to her in the city center, because, unfortunately, I don’t have gas at my house — an electric stove.
In the afternoon my wife and I decided to move forward in search of water for domestic needs. In the afternoon, the water intake consisted of approximately 2000 people. We turned around and left ... returned after 5 evenings, stood for about 1,5 hours and took the same life-giving food-grade moisture - as many as 24 liters! While standing in the queue, punching the mood of people, who what it is, while not particularly climbing "on the rampage." I found a huge number of supporters of the LC and Novorossia, but opponents of the LC of the LC were simply silent with displeased faces and stupidly waited for their turn. Almost at the very end the photographer came up and began to take pictures of the water intake and the queue near it. Immediately, the hi and the people's indignation rose ... What a surprise it was for me - when in the face of the photographer I saw a former classmate of Sergei Boychuk with my MOTHER! He was known at school as a supporter of the UNA-UNSO, UPA and other tramps, then under Yushchenko he headed the youth movement of some young Bandera in Lugansk, when Yanukovych he was hidden and heard nothing for him, and here he appeared again in “Freedom "it seems, and has even been seen on TV a couple of times. The result of his appearance in public is a battered camera, a destroyed memory card and notable cuffs from the people. I think on this, if still alive, the career of a photographer is over ... By the way, in the crowd, people still remain “suckers” in their common mass and were even ready to forgive him for his action, and what he did was a natural adjustment.
I took the water ... Night ... shelling ... answer "Gradami" ...
7 August. Heat ... people have everything, even the newest and most sophisticated, like your submissive servant, freezers. I have not yet seen such a number of products thrown out to the dump ... I am afraid that this may threaten some kind of epidemic, for rotting products is a tin!
In the morning my wife and my girlfriend did and rolled everything into the banks that could be saved from the freezer. Then, as always, in general, - to replenish water and home ...
The night passed under the most severe shelling from the natsmenov eastern quarters of Lugansk. They thrashed, judging by the sound, with all that they could ... from howitzers and hyacinths to "Acacias". The result - in 1: 30 nights woke up from the glow in the window and the buzz. He was blown up, as he learned in the morning already, a gas pipeline. Where - I do not know and do not want to lie.
By the way, I was able to send SMS to Germany from a German sim card and Kyivstar in roaming from an 100 attempt in a certain part of the city, where a crowd of people are trying to do the same. Someone is lucky, someone is not. The phone began to turn off - a portable battery with this mode of operation will not last long, and even the sense from it, if it does not catch the main network ...
8 August. But this is really, my friends, the night of tin!
They were shooting everywhere in such a way that I was already thinking of crawling under the bathroom and praying ... We survived! And thank God!
I write these lines in a notebook really (I'm not lying!) With two candles on the side table, sitting on the bed. My wife looks askance at me. But I do not care.
Today, my wife and my wife in private houses have a family with a generator that pumps water, and they give out water for free !!! By the way, if the militiamen find out that someone takes money for water, there should be a harsh punishment.
I found a point not far from home, where I catch the MTS and I can somehow call. With the 100 th attempt has already been able to reach his sister in Germany. Communication, by the way, struck by its quality, while people nearby shouted at the tubes like victims. Roaming is roaming, as well as the price for it ... At least I learned something new! I was surprised that they detained the mayor Sergey Kravchenko. And in general, the question is why did he move across the corridor of the National Guard under - for it was already clear to him that it was a prison! I have some thoughts on this subject, but I will voice them after I leave the information vacuum and clarify some details.
Well, nice news from the sister - South boiler is almost finished off! From the unpleasant - the next preparing storm of Donetsk and Lugansk. More from the pleasant - Putin's sanctions against the EU on products. Sister said that the owners of grocery enterprises in Germany in a panic! This is so, to the note ... Everything is hard to write with a candle, tomorrow, if everything goes well, I will continue!
9 August. The night was even worse than yesterday.
Caught in the next house in 10-th floor. The gunshot destroyed the slab of the balcony and poked the glass of the nearby floors. The wall of the house resembles the chronicles from the 90 of the Chechen war times ...
In the morning, a long-time acquaintance came to me, and until 3 hours we sat and drank moonshine until we were knocked out ...
He slept like a child, his wife said that he had not even heard of the powerful evening shelling.
The truth is already in 4 or 5 hours of the morning again heard the morning shelling, and again my quarters.
By the way, one day they didn’t replenish the water supply and already, the very next day, we encountered some problems with a sufficient amount of process water!
10 August. In a portable gas burner a gas cylinder ended (as I wrote earlier, in the house where I live there are only electric furnaces). It was actually held for more than a week. It is unreal to buy a new one, but for me, as the "happy owner" of an electric cooker, this is most welcome! Now even tea is only from a girlfriend with a thermos across the road 900 meters from the house ...
First of all, my wife and I in the morning replenished very successfully the water supply, though like mules, but this is already customary!
With great difficulty, I got through the roaming by German simka sister. Received information that you can sort of leave Lugansk through the Village of Lugansk and the village of Malinovka - Petrovka - Happiness. We thought at home, pissed off, in the evening collected the necessary things for the first cold weather and tomorrow, together with the mother-in-law and with God's help, we will try to break through to our parents to the north of the region, for it’s already becoming unbearable in Lugansk, and, probably, it’s already difficult without water, light, constant shelling.
I am writing these lines again under the candle.
God forbid to get to the parents without any problems and adventures, and finally to see a little boy whom I have not seen since the beginning of June, and I haven’t actually heard the last 3 weeks yet!
While writing these lines, standard evening-night shelling began ... "
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