People’s Mayor of Slavyansk: “We didn’t think it would reach war, as we hoped for Russian help”
In an interview with REGNUM, the former “people's mayor” of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev spoke about the first days of the uprising in the Donbas, about the self-organization of people, the creation of the people's militia and the beginning of the war in Novorossiya.
REGNUM: When did you decide to disobey the new Kiev authorities?
After 19 in February, Yanukovych’s power was overthrown in a coup d'état, initiated by residents of the city 21 of February who were not indifferent to the current events in the amusement park to them. Lenin in the city of Slavyansk near the monument to the Liberator Soldier gathered about 70 people. We discussed the situation in the country, realizing that those who took the power of armed radicals will come to our land with pro-fascist sentiments. It did not suit anyone that they wanted to make us a Nazi state, to make us forget about our grandfathers and past achievements. We did not want to live under the fascists and oligarchs, who, having usurped power, made important decisions for the state, disregarding the interests of the people, violating all the norms of the Constitution and international law.
By that time, Slavyansk was becoming a depressed city, the industry was dying. Our richest resort, which previously had all-Union significance, was tried to be transferred into private hands, which partly turned out. They wanted to produce shale gas, destroying our unique natural resources and the future of our region. We already had the experience of unification - earlier we already held meetings against it. Plus, I already had experience in dealing with law enforcement structures and a corrupt element. In order to counteract the internal and external representatives of the fascist junta, we decided to organize a people's squad that would protect public order and the security of the city, since practically all of our police were in Kiev at that time, and Slavyansk was left unprotected. In order for us not to have any manifestations of radical elements, we decided to take control of the city. At this first gathering, I was chosen as commander, and we immediately formed a headquarters structure.
REGNUM: Were these 70 people from Slavyansk?
Yes, these were residents of Slavyansk, including police officers who came “civilian” - patriotic people, We agreed to meet the next day, because we understood that 70 people are not enough for the city. The next day, we had a new meeting where 1200 people already gathered. Initially, we divided the city into districts, in each district a senior was chosen who reassigned himself to the fives, dozens and hundreds. As a result, two days later, we had already formed the structure of the regiment, and we began to patrol the city at night, to provide security at meetings and various events held in the city. In the counteraction of the junta, we have united with the Slavic branch of the Communist Party of Ukraine, headed by A. P. Khmeleva. We agreed to cooperate in holding protest actions.
At the same time we were engaged in solving problems of the ideological direction. We began to look for ways to neighboring cities, such as Donetsk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Krasny Liman, Svyatogorsk, in order to coordinate our actions with them. When I realized that we were already more or less organized, we launched patrols so that our guys patrolled the city - five people each. We systematized and processed all the data from them. Then I went to the Svyatogorsk Lavra, where I had a long conversation with Vladyka. I explained to him that we are absolutely apolitical people, that we only want a peaceful sky over our heads, that we will defend our cultural, family values and our land in order not to let this bastard here, and, naturally, we will try to change the power of the oligarchs selling together with the land is the future of our children.
REGNUM: How did Vladyka react to this? Blessed?
Yes, blessed.
REGNUM: What was the real position of the then mayor of Slavyansk Neli Shtepy? How did she take in what was happening?
22 February, when 1200 people gathered us, a conversation with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the city took place near Nely Igorevna, in which it was literally announced that we need to be “knocked out”. When they told me about it, I answered - well, let them try. After all, I was aware of the corruption component of the work of the executive committee. I knew about the scheme, according to which in a month up to one and a half or two million hryvnias went through Nelya Igorevna into the pocket of Azarov, Pshonka and Bliznyuk. That same evening, I met with Deputy Interior Minister Belyanin. They claimed that our drunken people broke down the door and robbed some girl, even though we declared a dry law from day one. It was a provocation. There was no robbery and hacking, with which Belyanin agreed. The next day I told him: we are ready to cooperate with you in maintaining law and order in the city. Distributed areas for patrols and interaction. We also met with people from the traffic police, saying that we would give our people to reinforce the roadblocks, and thus we began to work. I had no contact with Nelei Igorevna before the storming of the Slavic city department of 12 in April. At the same time, the crime situation in the city almost completely disappeared. We took control of the city.
At the same time, we worked to coordinate our popular movement with other cities. Literally, by the middle of March we held a meeting of our coordination council and united five cities - Krasny Liman, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka. After that, it became clear that we are organized enough to take weapon and protmatrmovat adminzdaniya, as opposed to the radicals who seized power in the country through violent coup. We decided - Moscow is far, the Crimea is closer, and we went to the Crimea. I got access to Ekaterina Gubareva, with whom we communicated via Skype to further coordinate the security forces of the people's militia. Before that, I traveled to Donetsk to all the seizures of administrative buildings that took place in March. I tried to meet with those who led these seizures. But it was enough for me to simply enter the administration building and look at this whole mess in order to understand that there was nobody to talk there.
REGNUM: What did those who began the first seizure of buildings in Donetsk want?
I had good informational support in Donetsk and other cities. And besides the visible image, I knew the inside story of what was happening. At first, the process was led by the people of the oligarchs. At the same time, Akhmetov and Taruta are just the most famous surnames, there were other people who controlled the events. The NOD movement itself (the Donbass People’s Militia - REGNUM news agency) launched agents of influence, who settled there and began to break up the movement from the inside. By this time, Pushilin and Purgin came to us in Slavyansk (the first chairman of the DPR Supreme Council Denis Pushilin and the first vice-premier of the DPR Andrey Purgin - BakuToday), and said that we need to unite and organize. I answered them - guys, the stage at which you are now, we passed three weeks ago. We have already organized the structure of the regiment, we patrol the city, strengthen the roadblocks, and we understand that we will have to take up arms. At that time, the Nazis were already taking city departments in various cities of Western Ukraine and seizing weapons, and we understood that we could not cope with them with our bare hands.
REGNUM: Could you then assume that you would have to fight not only with Nazi groups, but also with the entire regular army of Ukraine?
We did not think that it would come to this, because, frankly speaking, we hoped for help from Russia. Before our eyes was an example of the Crimea, where the "polite people" did everything without a single shot. And we also hoped that we would take up arms and show that we can stand in defense of our land and our interests. At that time there were no prerequisites for a full-scale war. We hoped for a referendum and a peaceful outcome. After all, we managed to come to an agreement with our police in Slavyansk, Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka, and we thought that we would succeed in reaching an agreement this time too. We didn’t want to secede from Ukraine, we just wanted to live our own way. But when blood began to flow, the question was already different.
REGNUM: When and how did Igor Strelkov appear with his people in Slavyansk?
At the beginning of April, an appeal appeared on the Internet, allegedly on behalf of the NOD, which was made by three masked men and with machine guns - it looks like toy ones. They called on the residents of Donetsk to go out and storm the administration again, while mentioning that they should take a weapon with them. We regarded it as a provocation. I called back to my coordinators and said that we would not go on any storms of the administrations. We decided that we should take not the administration, but the regional SBU, and then the city and regional MVD. We decided that to assault the SBU, we would need about 200 people. I gathered a combined squad of the most combat-ready people from Slavyansk, Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka, some of whom were former military men who knew how to handle weapons and knew what they were going. In 4 in the morning of April 6, we drove into the city of Donetsk in small groups on private transport, where about a hundred Donetsk residents joined us. As a result, we entered the SBU building first, there we were met by 40-50 militiamen with shields and helmets. We managed to negotiate with their elders to leave the building. They left the building to the applause of the people gathered and the shouts of “the police with the people.” We took first the upper armory - there were only pistols - and then the lower one, where machine guns, ammunition and a couple of "flies" lay. This weapon was also not enough, we would have enough ammunition for about 7-10 minutes of battle. Police officers came to 9 for hours, we talked to them, and Igor Bezler (commander of the militia of Gorlovka - REGNUM) and “Wolf” drove up to 10 for hours. Then came the local "top" SBU, who brought their veterans - with some of them I was familiar with anti-corruption activities. I explained to them what we want, on that and went their separate ways. We demanded the release of the previously arrested Pavel Gubarev (although this, of course, was said for red words), we also demanded independence for the Donbass, so that the people would decide their own fate. Later information came to us that two groups of capture had advanced from Zaporozhye and Kiev to storm the building of the regional SSU. We prepared for defense, began to build barricades. But then, after consulting, we decided to leave the building, since we did not have ammunition for organizing normal defense. Our task was completed, we took the weapons and ammunition. We decided to first work out the combat engagement and only later, more prepared to perform further. We left it neatly, our last man left for 10 minutes before the assault. They stormed an empty building.
At this time we have already moved to the regional administration. And there was a commander on each floor, there was no general leadership. They were going to, about something agreed, people carried food, right there on each floor drunkenness ... For us it was crazy. We decided that if we were to be stormed here, then we would resist. But at the next meeting we heard that we were planning to disarm and surrender the SBU. I said that we will not protect this bedlam, and let them kill each other themselves, there is nobody to talk to. And we left this building, got into our cars and went home. As a result, we lost faith in the so-called movement of the GCD, because we did not understand with whom we could talk in Donetsk.
At the same time I worked with other cities in the south of the Donetsk region - Shakhtersk, Snezhnoe, went to Lugansk region, where I talked with the Cossacks in the Red Ray to coordinate and organize the general movement. Initially, such a scenario was voiced - to begin seizures from Shakhtyorsk, then again to go to Donetsk and continue working there. But then it was decided to start from Slavyansk. It stands on the highway Kharkiv - Rostov, it is the main road leading to the south of the Donetsk region. He is also on his way to Lugansk and Lugansk region. And 12 numbers called me and said that volunteers from the Crimea were coming to us. I met them, led them to the city, and brought them to my base. They were 50 people. We at that time had about 300 fighters.
On the same day, we successfully proclaimed the city department of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, arrested the acting head of the city department, Alexander Davydenko, who was in charge of drug trafficking in our city, while the second deputy, Belyanin, was engaged in markets and shops, and the third, Shchegol - pharmaceuticals. We knew very well how to talk to them in order to put them in their place; there were no particular problems. The next day we took the city department of the SBU without problems, without breaking doors, etc. I had an agreement to take the city police department peacefully. But Strelkov wanted to solve issues differently. As a result, I had to pull out the bars on the window and enter ... From that moment, construction began on fortifications and roadblocks around the city. We blocked the main highways, for this purpose we used equipment and city services.
On the first day, Nella Shtepa came running and began to say: you guys, well done, I'm with you. She always had a penchant for window dressing, but she knew her business clearly — how to get money out of the budget and put it in your pocket. And right there in the evening from Strelkova information came to us that Shtepa agreed with people from the “Right Sector” that she would take them to the city and lead a 60-70 man with weapons to the executive building. As a result, in the evening we took control of the executive committee building - before that it was actually open, there was one watchman there. And Nelia was gone. We continued to actively build fortifications. The next day we held a “people's assembly”, where the assembled residents of the city supported me and chose me as the people's mayor of Slavyansk.
Initially, we decided all organizational issues together. We were going with the commanders, made a general decision and only then started to do something. On the same day I had a conversation with Strelkov. He introduced himself as a retired colonel of the FSB. I, as a former military man, knowing the subordination to the elder officer, actually reassigned to him all the militia forces of the cities with which he had previously interacted. We defined it this way: he deals with the military issues of the defense of the city, I do with the issues of the life support of the civilian population of the city. At the same time, I left in my submission part of the people's squad of Slavyansk, which guarded the building of the executive committee.
The first week of the executive committee service did not work, no one went to work. All were in light shock. On the third or fourth day, the “anti-terror” group from Kiev, led by the deputy head of the anti-terrorism center of Ukraine, pulled up. They were 15 people, and we successfully eliminated them.
REGNUM: What was the point of attacking a city with such small forces? Didn't they realize what was going on there?
The fact is that an armored group has come forward in support of them. We drove the armored vehicles. And on April 19 we received the first three dead already in the ranks of the militia. “Pravoseki” arrived in four jeeps and fired at our roadblock, and were also destroyed.
And from the side of Izyum and Dobropolya, troops gradually began to slavyansk to Slavyansk. By this time, we turned to the reconnaissance unit of the 25 airborne brigade (28 people). I took them to the forest in the BZS area, and we blocked them together, until the Daisies group approached us and we did not agree that they would lay down their arms. We brought them to the executive committee, fed them, dressed them in civilian clothes and sent everyone to their homes. Five people while left in the militia. Then we captured another group of the 25 airborne brigade. They called me from Kramatorsk and said that the population was holding a convoy of 6 BMD. I moved there, talked to the officers, explaining to them that they had arrived on the territory beyond the control of the junta. Then I said: guys, let's sit down, have some tea, and then do what you want, but leave the weapon here. While I was talking to them, our guys caught up, and with the flags of the Militia of Donbass and Russia, I took them through the city along the highway to Slavyansk. People met the convoy with great joy. So we got combat equipment. Part of the personnel and one of the officers immediately went over to our side.
All this time in the city continued the construction of fortifications. There was no point in defending long-range borders, since the number of militia was small, and the length of communications, on the contrary, was huge. We could not control a large territory, and all external roadblocks existed mainly for the verification of documents. By this time, a wandering group appeared in the Adamovka area. As it turned out, it was the criminal thugs who decided to cash in on the sly. The guys hunted for them, in the end they were destroyed. I can’t remember the exact date, since from the beginning of April I practically didn’t have a rest and all the events were already going to be a film.
Since 15 in April, when I already had the authority to represent the interests of Slavyansk residents, in my statement (15.04.2014) I announced the adoption of necessary measures to maintain law and order in the city, namely, the imposition of a curfew and the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages from 20: 00 to 10: 00.
Within three days, some work was done to curb the trafficking of narcotic substances in the city. By 18, the drug trade had ceased. With a statement from 17 on April 2014, I announced the beginning of the process of nationalization (re-privatization) of enterprises and markets into the municipal property of the city, because I knew that many of them had been acquired into private property with gross violations of the law. We reduced rent payments in the markets by 20%, which, accordingly, led to a decrease in the cost of goods sold by entrepreneurs.
At the same time, I was tasked with forming an initiative group for the creation of a territorial community of civilians. The communists helped a lot, we used their resource. Of the representatives of the territorial community, who were elected according to the system of foreman, centurion, and thousand, we wanted to create a body that controls or replaces the entire city council. 26 on April 2014 at the general meeting of residents of the city of Slavyansk, we adopted a charter on the territorial community, a regulation on the people's militia (municipal police), concluded a number of agreements, including the provision of temporary premises for the militia, and resolved a number of other important issues. We wanted for our land to have direct democracy without corruption and oligarchy - through reform at the local government level. Under articles 140-146 of the Constitution of Ukraine, of which we were citizens at that time (before the 11 referendum of May 2014), local self-government is the right of the territorial community. And it can manage either directly, having prescribed the decision-making process in the charter, or through the local government bodies created by it. 30 April at an extraordinary session of the City Council, the deputies voted unanimously and decided on my appointment as chairman of the Slavic City Council.
All these days I practically did not sleep. During the day I was busy with the affairs of the city, I received the population, in the evening and at night, along with the Cossacks, I was driving around roadblocks, we checked the curfew. At the same time, we organized work on educational institutions, held a meeting with principals of schools, colleges and kindergartens. When the enemy pulled up the artillery and the mortar shelling of the city began, it became clear that the children should be taken out. We closed the school year, gave all students marks for the school year, so as not to conduct final exams, we immediately removed the children from boarding schools and children's institutions. Since 19, we have stopped paying pensions to us, closed the service in banks and the treasury. Thanks to caring people, humanitarian assistance for civilians and militia began to come to our city. These were food, medicine, clothes. A.P. Khmeleva and M.V. Kuznetsov were involved in monitoring the issue of humanitarian aid to the population. We immediately began issuing humanitarian aid to pensioners and socially unprotected residents of the city who suffered from artillery bombardment. All utilities continued to work, sometimes under shelling, dangling power lines, water lines, gas pipelines, sewers were repaired. I created an initiative group of economists, lawyers and financiers to create my own municipal financial structure, which could ensure the financial independence of the city and district. And while attacks, shelling began to intensify.
We gave the mountain Karachun - the dominant height. She was protected by all 12-15 people who, thank God, left with minimal losses. When the Dill captured Karachun, they began to place artillery on it and bombard the city. At the same time, they came from the Feed Mill and the Rykhoz, later the BZS roadblock and the Krasnolimansky turn were busy, the ring narrowed. In the village. Andreevka pravoseki with the tacit consent of the paratroopers from the Chernigov brigade shot civilians, after which ours stopped taking the “dill” prisoner. At the end of May we were really 700 people, and we kept around us a twenty thousandth group. By this time we had already shot down their helicopters and airplanes, successfully fighting the enemy’s armored vehicles. We blocked the first helicopter in the area of Kramatorsk, the “dill” didn’t really understand where we were shot down from. And then every day we won a small victory.
Even before the May holidays, we were visited by a group of OSCE staff. There were eight officers of the NATO countries - Germany, Poland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Denmark and four officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The first day they sat in the basement of the executive committee. On the same day, it became a bad translator - he just lost consciousness from the experience. In order for representatives of the European Union to understand who we are, why they took a weapon in their hands, and that the militia defends the interests of the people, I had a conversation with them. The next day, I gave a press conference so that the relatives of the officers simply saw that they were alive, and as a gesture of goodwill we let the Swedish officer, who has diabetes, go home. He was handed over to visiting representatives of the OSCE mission, headed by Mark Etherington. And in order not to escalate the situation, I said to the officers that they could consider themselves my guests, and that I was responsible for their safety.
By this time, I already had good relations with the OSCE mission. We talked productively, and they asked for the officers to be released. I raised the issue of exchange. By that time, my assistant Igor Perepechayenko had already been arrested. I offered to start a conversation about freeing him and Pavel Gubarev. The OSCE mission expressed its agreement and stated that it would clarify this issue through its own channels. Thus, our actions initiated the process of liberation of Gubarev and Perepechaenko. 3 May 2014, the officers who were visiting with me, went home safely. A representative of Russia Lukin arrived - I honestly did not understand why he came. The same is with Tsarev, who clearly wanted to be promoted. He brought humanitarian aid - a half of the "Gazelle" of pasta, promised to provide weekly assistance, but in the end nothing more came from him to Slavyansk - brehlo, in one word. I handed the officers to Mark Etherington (as a representative of the OSCE mission) in the presence of Lukin, and all departed to Donetsk, where he and Taruta arranged a briefing. It was said to everyone - we thank comrade Lukin and comrade Taruta for their efforts to free the officers. But one of the correspondents present there asked: Do you think it is necessary to point out the merits of the mayor of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev in the release of these officers? Then they faded away and through clenched teeth recognized that yes, they say, he participated.
2 May I had a birthday that was overshadowed by the death of my friend - "Daisy" died. The officers drank to my health, one of the toasts was for all the military in Europe to unite and destroy fascism together, as our grandfathers did seventy years ago. And then decide how we live on. I tried to show them who we are, for what we stand here, that we are not terrorists, but normal adequate people. We are on our own land, and we don’t want to see here a pro-fascist government, ukronatsistov and foreign mercenaries, who at that time already fought on the side of Ukraine under Slavyansk. We already had the first foreign prisoners. On the side of the junta, three PMCs fought: Akademi and Greystone (USA) and Polish ASGS OTAGO. As a result of radio interception, it became clear that the Americans (their unit was stationed at the Krasnolimansk turn) mainly served artillery and did not directly participate in the clashes. By this time, we had already seized their weapons, including expansive ammunition prohibited by the Vienna Convention. “Dill” also used cluster and phosphorus ammunition.
Initially, the Americans fought on the side of the Ukrainians at a rate of $ 500 per day. Later, in early June, when we already had Tanks, they said: "We came here on a safari and we won’t fight for such money." And their unit, about 80 people, simply took off and left, abandoning tents and equipment. Only the Poles remained. But when the Americans began to pay $ 1000-1500 a day, they returned, began to shell the city from howitzers. There were two villains with the call signs "Buffalo" and "Rocco", who laid the shells very accurately. If the Ukrainian military fired quite mediocre, then these fell quite accurately. Unit commanders have repeatedly told me about this.
Our hottest point was Semyonovka, which was held thanks to the heroism and special mental attitude of our militia. One of the routes of supplying the city with humanitarian supplies and ammunition passed through Semyonovka. It was very difficult to slip it and only at high speed. On 110 km / h flew any car. If less than 70 km / h, she fell under mortar shelling, somewhere around 90 - the car could catch a tank. In those days, we came forward Motorola, who showed himself as a desperate fighter. He then had a small group. The garrison held the cap, in Nikolayevka stood Miner, Owl and Golden Eagle. The boys showed the wonders of heroism. There was a case when we have one guy from Krasny Liman shot down a low-flying helicopter from a rocket launcher, miraculously hitting the cockpit. Separately, I would like to thank the reconnaissance unit, which shot down two more helicopters: one, with mercenaries, just exploded in the air, and the second, which was low, they just riddled with small arms. The Ukrainian general Kulchitsky died in this helicopter.
This holiday turned out in Slavyansk May 9 on Victory Day! Even a small parade with armored vehicles managed to organize. On this day, I realized that the May 11 referendum we will hold a bang. I would especially like to tell you about the reconnaissance aircraft AN-30. He was shot down during the day in front of the whole city, residents were cursing to see off the padded apparatus. This event repeatedly with comments laid out later on YouTube.
The work with humanitarian aid received by the militia was very poor. Equipment and humanitarian aid reached the fighters on the front line without proper control. We had a deputy commander for the rear with the call sign “Vika-Vika”, there is evidence that she organized the plundering of humanitarian aid and the sale of medicines at pharmacies and products through the markets. Later, in Donetsk, she was arrested. In early May, Strelkov insistently advised me to work and coordinate my actions with Vladimir Pavlenko. He worked on the executive committee as the head of the social welfare and labor department, but did not fulfill his duties, he rarely attended hardware meetings. The shooters did not respond to my objections and information about the dishonesty of this person. Basically, Pavlenko disappeared in Donetsk at Borodaya (former Prime Minister of the DPR Alexander Boroday - REGNUM news agency). The gunners gave me the number of Beard, said that he was appointed from Moscow and should be contacted. I phoned him and talked. No constructive suggestions were received, so-so, talk about anything. Boroday was told that the people they nominate for the DPR parliament from Slavyansk do not have powers to do that, including Pavlenko. Later, when the Abwehr arrived in Donetsk, a number of facts were revealed - in particular, the humanitarian aid intended specifically for Slavyansk settled in the basements of the regional administration in Donetsk. Theft was terrible. What they tried to ascribe to me, they did everything themselves.
In general, those who called themselves then “the government of the DPR” are people who stupidly plundered humanitarian aid, money, which was collected by Russians and residents of far-abroad countries. Slavyansk fought, and at this time in Donetsk, the "oppressors" and people from "Vostok" squeezed out transport, copied enterprises and apartments to themselves. There is evidence that there is a trade in coal with “dill”; metal is sold, gas from Russia is sold through gas stations. Humanitarian aid comes and is sold through markets and shops, medicines - through pharmacies. In general, a mess, so my attitude towards them was appropriate.
When I talked to Beard, he said that they were preparing a draft constitution. I suggested that he familiarize himself with our project, since we, as I have already said, from the very beginning carried out work in all directions. I tried to talk to these “managers”, to let them know that the assistance meant for us was settling in Donetsk. Volunteers who went to Slavyansk were not allowed in there, they also settled in Donetsk. We tried to get justice. I'm used to the fact that people are responsible for their words, but here I saw the opposite. What we feared most of all happened - a prostitute-politician intervened in our popular movement. We stupidly used in favor of political and financial interests. What we raised in Slavyansk was exactly the opposite of what was happening in Donetsk.
Since there was no funding for the city, I received funds from my interviews - there were TV channels that paid money. From this money, I paid one-time assistance to the families of the victims, the guys in the hospitals of Donetsk were treated with the same funds. I had the chief surgeon of the Donetsk region in touch, we had a very good relationship, so questions were resolved quickly. Businessmen also came to me and said: “Glory, we know that you won’t take anything for yourself,” and gave money for the needs of the city. At the time of the arrest, I had money left 100 dollars and 743 hryvnia.
At one point, we were crushed by a water line, destroyed the main substation, destroyed a high-voltage line running from Kramatorsk. The water disappeared in the city, but we found a way out. We had a backup water supply line of the city, and slowly the water could be pumped. In the center of the city we had many artesian wells and baths, which were fed by water from these wells. We immediately launched milk tankers and barrels of water in the city. Yes, there was no water in the taps. But clean drinking water was delivered without problems. On electricity, we had a fourth reserve power supply line that remained intact. We could not turn on the whole city, but we had all the hospitals, hospitals, the executive committee connected, two headquarters and a communications center were provided with electricity. Within three days, we repaired the power lines and the water line with our own power, providing Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka with water. It was impossible to supply water to Slavyansk, since we did not have energy supply for sewage pumping pumps. Still, there was water.
Pavlenko all this time, without informing me as the chairman of the executive committee, traveled to Donetsk and talked with Boroday. The information reached me that 28 million hryvnias would be allocated to retirement of people who did not receive a pension. I realized that these funds will be received soon and that we will be able to distribute them to pensioners. I ordered Pavlenko to make lists, and the next day he brought them to me. I looked and saw that half of this list consists of those who had left, half - of "dead souls." As a result of the tenth day, I was arrested, and Pavlenko was appointed to my place - a former employee of the SBU, who, according to my data, was in touch with the “other side”. He took as his assistant Fridon Vekua, who is now handing over all those who were connected with us. And even earlier, I raised the question of his arrest, as he was connected with the centurion of the “euromaidan” and NSDC counselor, Oleg Kotenko, but I was not heard. Yes, and 11 Jun Pavlenko still received money from Beard, but, as you know, this money did not come to pensioners and mothers with children. Pavlenko is now hiding in Belarus, requested citizenship there.
When the “dill” entered Slavyansk, all the people who supported us were allowed through the basement of the SBU. There was a massive recruitment - so did German intelligence during the Great Patriotic War. And then all the "mice" povylazili - began to take all the people who worked with us and helped us. The settling of accounts has begun. Now Ukrainians have brought there many refugees who have not taken root in the central and western regions, many people from Donetsk, from Mariupol, from Horlivka under the resettlement program. They occupy other people's apartments and houses. Now the employment center has earned, and if you are from Slavyansk, you are sent to work in the western regions of Ukraine. According to our data, a lot of people get sick - perhaps they began to be poisoned. It is known that two tanks with some chemical chemical were delivered to the Slavyansk station. In the area of Khimprom there is a large accumulation of phosphorus - the plant itself is no longer there, and there is a storage with phosphorus. If you wish, you can organize a catastrophe in three seconds.
As for the mood of the people, they are waiting for us. Many people call me, we correspond in social networks. Many are intimidated and forced to put up with people of family and children, they somehow have to live. They can be understood. People are driven to “patriotic” rallies, but just look at the pictures to understand what the people think, no one is happy.
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