It was better when there was peace
Now we are always waiting for something
For all the time of "ceasefire" I didn't hear any single day of complete silence
Shooting was constant
When incoming shells hit this area last time?
Last hit was on 21st
21st of April?
21st of May, 3-4 days ago
It was about 10 PM
It hitted nearby so my windows were shaking and we heard it well
How recent it happens?
Currently it's not often
In 14th-15-th years we were shelled very hard
And according to schedule
Incoming shells were coming in round without a stop
They were shooting in square from Oktyabrskiy to Putilovka
From what direction shellings were conducted?
Opytniy, Vodyanoye, Peski
It was seen, behind my home there's 3-storey house
I was climbing there and it was seen even without binocular, where it came from, because of flash
It was seen even at daytime
And it was also seen where it falls
In a square from Stratonavtov and towards the railroad station
First they shooted in a line one way then it came somewhere here
How many people died over that period? Over 3 years of war
Many, I can't say exact number
But only among people I personally knew 5 people were killed
Who stands in Opytnoye and Peski?
Ukrainian national guard
Why they are shooting here?
To liberate our land from us
Who's "us", "us" are old people, children, pensioners... They probably need the land
It's mostly not war of people, it's war of businessman
Our "sweet kings" or how are they called now
Is that civil settlement or military?
Civil, here's no soldiers
There was military base
I don't know if there was somebody but now it's ruined
Maybe there is someone but there are no soldiers around the settlement
When there were heavy shellings one or two of them were sometimes coming somewhere to shop or kiosk
On the first day of war 26th of May I was at work
Daughter called me, the break just started, from 12 noon to 1 PM
At that time she was at home with little child, my husband was also at home
She was shouting in phone "mom, there is shooting here"
"It's scary here, there's shooting"
Father was at his mother's place
She said "it's very loud here, I'm alone with the child and we don't know where to hide"
Then husband came and they went to basement
This day they spent in basement
I came out from my work after 5 PM
Came to railroad station to came here
From the station I heard shoots from this side
It was very frightening to go here
Son-in-law was hiding with granddaughter here at Stratonavtov
Also in basement
They called me and tell not to go here because it's very scary
I was adviced to go to relatives
We called them
I was tossing around the station because I didn't know what to do
I decided to go to relatives
In the evening when it became a little calmer relatives went with car
And took my 2 daughters with their families out from there
To safe for that time Leninskiy district
And from that our wandering started
For third year we practically aren't live at our home, my husband lives at home nearby
While my children currently renting a flat behind railroad station
Thanks God they found jobs, kids are going to kindergarden
2 granddaughters, 4 year old both
I remember daughter told me that they with 1 yeard old granddaughter were hiding in basement
Almost 2 years old, she was very scared... "Mom, uncle boom, uncle boom!"...
It was very scary at that day, at 26th of May... We remember it well and recollect it with sorrow
We don't even think It'll last for such long period of time
We want peace so much
So everyone came back, because settlement is empty, very few people live here
Tell what's current situation here?
Not calm, when evening comes they start to shoot
On the daytime it's more rare though there is shooting while in the night it's scarier
After 6 PM we're trying not to leave the house because it's dangerous
On 26th of May
We were sitting in yard
3 helicopters flight over us towards this side
Then turned around...If to be honest we were thinking it's Ahmetov's helicopters
But when they turned around... I live here nearby, Yershova 58
But when it turned above us...
Stop crying
Hold on
It lowered and started to shoot rockets towards airport
So low that it almost hit my chimney
All the ashes flew into the yard... It was so unexpected
It was scary buy we didn't understand it first, there were small kids in the yard
After that... Noone shoot settlement while airport was being taken by Ukraine
Our boys were sitting here in trenches
Constant breakthoughs... We were coming to them in the morning, bringing them coffee and talking
When Ukraine took the airport
They, just for the fun, were driving out
I don't know what tank it was, so covered with steel and sacks that it was impossible to hit, only from point-blank
It was driving out (it's heard), and shoot the settlement... We were sitting in basements
For 11 months there were no gas, water and electricity
About water... I have well in the yard, girls were coming to pick water from me, we also built a stove
I am working at "Zasyad'ko", director brought me coal
So we survived, neighbours were coming to cook on my stove
That's how we survived
You were coming here and here were only soldiers, rooks were flying and croaking in evening it was so scary...
Many times we were under the shelling
Neighbours, whose house is burned
I was coming from night shift and called them, telling that mortar shell hit their gate
They said that shelling will finish and they'll came
Shelling was over, they just went out and came under one more shelling
I don't remember home where they were hit...
In short, they were killed
At Gradostroiteley
Mortar shell hit their place and they were killed
They didn't managed to get home and look what's going on here
After some time their home was hit and burned out
It was "grad" shell that came, that's still there, you can film it
Shelling was so intense that there is no single home unharmed
If one side of house looks good, other is hit
And shellings continues till now
Can you tell about current situation?
Wait, please, while car pass by
It comes here
They're still shooting, just two days ago shell came behind us, to Lugovaya street
Man came, he just repaired doors and windows.with help of humanitarian aid, .. And now it's damaged again
What observers OSCE are?
What OSCE did?
They were driving here and asking "where mortar shell flew to?", "where was shooting?", how could I know?
I didn't answer, why send them here if they just sitting at the rairroad station?
They're sitting on the top of it and that's all, they're coming at 9 AM
And go at 5 PM, shellings are conducted in the evening, all the night and early in the morning
During the day they don't shoot
Here we hear the shot and direction where it came from
And surely we hear when it's exploded...
It's still so, we hear that it mostly comes from Vodyanoye and Peski
Outskirt of Avdeevka
Opytnoye... Now it comes to us
You think OSCE telling truth?
They aren't talking with us, we coming to them start to talk but they don't listen
They're just passing by
I never saw them here at the selltement
Who shoots at civilian settlement?
Ukraine
It's Ukraine who shoots, from the side of Peski, Vodyanoye, Tonenkoye, from there
We hear the shot itself it's trump sound but we hear it
And here we have only explosions
Why Ukrainians shoot civil village?
It's Poroshenko who should be asked
It's hard to say why they're shoot at us
Probably they don't like out position and the fact we don't want to break relations with Russia
Because all plants and entreprises here are connected with Russia
It was first, second is that they always think about us as about B-grade people
It happened not yesterday and not 3 years ago it was accumulated over long time
They don't like us much
What do you think is it better when OSCE is in DPR or not?
We don't care, we don't feel any difference if they're here or not
There is no help from here so there's no difference
They're shooting even when OSCE is near, maybe OSCE members are blind and deaf since childhood
What about humanitarian situation in village? Water, electricity, gas
Currently we have electricity, water and gas
Columns that were hit are currently being replaced
What's bad is that here's no transport, we need to go to railroad to go to work
I need to go for 30 minutes to railroad station
We have everything but transport
Electricity is repaired, connected with splice-joints but it works
Now if you cal ambulance ore firefighters they'll came back them it was pointless to call them
Here's house that was burned
"Grad" shell came, it's still in yard
Young couple was living here...
They died not inside the house
They were running here... They had dogs and other pets at home...
Where the shoot came from?
From Peski, it's the direction of Peski
Here, you can see the direction
It's the direction of Peski
Ukrainian president wants to prove that we are solid nation, how he says on TV screen
That's the proof that we are "solid nation", the shells we are being killed with
Civilians... Kids, old people, women
With such shells
Soldiers don't shoot from here... Was there soldiers in this yard?
Or whom was shooting from here?
There's no soldiers here?
No, here's no soldiers
Young peaceful couple was living here
And here's what hit their home
That's all that left from the house
Family died while they were running here
Young couple
Boy was 28
And wife of same age
10 year old boy left alone
He was 10 when they died
It was my neighbours
They died?
They died not here but while running here
Because dogs and cats were here, they were running to feed them and died on the way
House was burned later, exactely one month later
13th of January they died, 13th of February house was burned
Thanks to the love of Ukrainian president
How they died?
They were running from railroad station on foot
Shelling started and fragments hit them
Shell hitted the house and fragments killed them
When it happened?
13th of January 2015
Soldiers were in airport long before the referendum
Tell whose soldiers it was
Ukrainian contract soldiers from the city near Kiev
In April they already moved into the airport hotel
I know because I was working there
We had referendum on 11th of May
That's why when we're told we voted for the situation we have it's a lie
Because in April behind the "Metro" cannon was standing
So they were preparing to deal with us
It was Ukrainian soldiers
Before the referendum?
Before the referendum, they was there in April already
So when it happened on 26th of May
I should have go to work at 7 AM, I was working there, I was returned and said I must go home
Until the call
"The call" was helicopter above my yard
When it was poised overhead and pilot was looking at me
It was wery creepy, we can't understand what's going on because we can't beleive that it can be so
That the government could kill it's own people
All of us are Ukrainian citizens
First we thought it was some training
They were all fully-equiped, with masks and glasses
Helmets... All as it should be
They were pointing guns at people and shooting
Did you see the helicopter?
Yes it was poised here above the house
They were flying at so low altitude that we were thinking they'll hit the houses
Here's 2-storey building and we thought it will hit the roof
I ran to the garden and the helicopter was 4 meters from me
I ran out and pilot just turned his eyes to me
I envisioned it for two weeks after that
Night of 26th of May was also wery scary
Because in the night I had a feeling that they're shooting everywhere around me
It seemed that they were running around and shooting
How's current situation?
Situation is escalated
Comparing to how it was the situation is escalated
They shoot every night
It can be said they're shooting civilian areas on purpose
I'm surprised it's silent, usually rifles and machineguns are shooting from that side
They're shooting from something big, I'm not a soldier so I don't know
Earth is shaking, 120mm and 122 mm artillery and mortars are coming, howitzers are working
Previous year it was a little easier, this year everything started to fly to the settlement again
Where are soldiers here? Where are tanks or cannons?
Here's old man, we're all pensioners here... Who's shooting here?
Why to kill us and what for?
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