For 2022, the budget was secured in the community, there was no deficit. We had plans to build infrastructure, but of course they were not security facilities.
I did not allow myself to think about hostilities here. I have had this disturbing suitcase for a long time. And why was he lying? Because "Ira, collect it, I tell you, there will be a war", "Ira collect the suitcase. "Okay, collect", ‒ finally agreed. That is, I just made it just so that it was.
But I, for example, worked in other public organizations and already at a certain stage, when we carried out our activities, we were told to destroy documents that were related to military personnel.
The suitcase was properly folded. And in the morning I wake up and an acquaintance calls me, says: "Everything, I told you that the suitcase should be assembled. From today, you can't take her off your shoulders (I had such a pink backpack)". Well, it was so difficult, somehow I don't remember where my son was or whether he slept or whether his father had him. This is the moment I had.
There was no such reaction that I was completely surprised. That is, it was prepared for this. By that time, we had collected just help in our settlements for the military. We were going to hand it over to our boys. And that's why we already collected certain products in one of our premises in Kiptya and thought that if something happened, we would already have a hot food block.
I say that all this is a mundane business, but an eight-hour working day, you have to get up and go to work, because you have to understand what our orders will be. We first gathered in the old age. How will people be notified? What to do? People were in a panic, they didn't know what to do. Therefore, our employees were divided, they reported that the headman was on the spot, other employees were on the spot, because there were appeals from the Military Commissariat, buses were organized, and boys were gathering.
I got together, came to work. I understood that the end of the month, and I did not have a salary issued to the employees. Contacted the treasury. It was possible to collect all available payments, throw them into the electronic database and they were processed. That is, I had the task of closing the month.
The system unit, we had a server, it was immediately taken to the cellar so as not to lose data. That is, just like an alarming suitcase, so was the server. I understood that this is mine, I created it, there is all the full data. Yes, we still have a backup copy, but I knew we could put this server anywhere and work. That is, there will be a case that we can go somewhere, and our work process does not stop anywhere.
How painfully did she realize that the war had really begun. I live in Progress, and my husband lives in Kipty. At that time, he had a sick mother, we just took him out of the hospital just before the war. She was lying down, and it was necessary to move here and there. When cars began to drive into our street en masse, but they did not have people in civilian clothes. They asked for power banks, laces. They charged phones, we brewed coffee, tea, and made some sandwiches there.
That's when I really understood. This was already the impetus for everything. If such a massacre has already begun, everything is really, radically, seriously. And when I came to my mother, I said: "Mom, the war started for a couple of days". She says, "I know. I really know that war". And then, when these explosions began, she forbade us to stay here in the house.
There were no children with us. We sent them to reliable places. My son was taken away by his best man. He says, "I will take my children out". There, his parents are from the village, more calmly, there are no explosions like ours. I say to pick up. It was really deplorable here.
I understood that Masha the goddaughter, they grew up together from almost one pipe, they ate one porridge together. I understand that he will be comfortable there. But I had such tears b ‒ he takes him away, he takes him out, I stay alone. But I know that my child is safe and everything will be fine, because it was really dangerous here. We often went there, visited it, controlled the situation. We took many more children there when they swirled here in Kipty on March 3.
It happens, we just told my mother that the war. Literally on the second or third day, she died. And how unprepared each person was in the conditions of war. How to act in such cases? We arrived, arranged everything ourselves. I say, today I would not have coped with the things I did then in two or three hours.
Until then, I was afraid of people who died. Then she is looking from the wrong side. So, there were some superstitions that look in that direction, so someone else will die on that street. Well, such since childhood. And here we had no options. The man, however, was worried. He did not know how to act in this case. And I'm on my own at that time... I just had iron nerves. I just didn't think that something might not work out.
Everything was organized. And so I already remember when the ritual service that we called arrived. By the time we were already performing the funeral, we went to the church, it was already the last tomb, the last cross. That is, these stocks were also not there. And we have those who died later, they hid them themselves, because there were interruptions, explosions, no one wanted to leave.
I have an apartment in an apartment building with shelter. I have already come, I lay on my bed, I lie like this, I rest, the neighbors gather, knock. People were listed in the basement and they realized that I was not there. I had never been to the basement until then. Well, no. I never had fear. I lie like that until 12 o'clock, so the plane has to fly. There he already fired at Krasylivka, fired at Khreshchaty, so maybe he will fly to us. Arrived. I never had fear.
When we were going to give lunch to the boys, I went out into the yard, a rocket flies. Two. And there was such a sound that I, out of fear, let's go to the cellar, closed the door. Then I think that I would be saved. I didn't even run down there. When Yana and I went downstairs, the boys were wearing helmets and bulletproof vests. And what are we in? In jackets. We had some light jackets without hats. They surrounded us. But when he dropped these bombs, these plates rose so much and fell so much that it was as if my vertebrae were all counted. It's such a blow. So he left them.
In fact, I had no family at home. We volunteered and took lunches. I could always have bread at home, but I didn't want to eat hard. So I remember today, people had a problem, they wanted to eat bread, and I had it, I didn't eat it at all.
Well, somewhere there I ate some cutlet, some dumpling, somewhere I ate something. That is, I didn't want food in such a quantity, or there was a supply in the body and you fought with it with some enthusiasm. Well, so that you sit down and eat fully as you eat today, no.
But there was a problem with gasoline, because here in Kipty WOG opened, but there they gave 10 or 20 liters, I don't remember. You take a turn, my husband and I have two cars, so they have become two cars in different queues, each in a canister. Because, firstly, people did not accept that if you refuel more, you will not explain what it is for the farm or for a volunteer.
And there was gas, there was no such problem at all. And many people did not think about salt. One pack of salt ‒ and the meat disappears and the lard disappears. If the elderly, I remember my grandmother, they always bought matches in packages, salt in packages, these packages of one and a half kilograms, there was always a sheet, there was sugar.
I understand why they held these reserves. Because they have already experienced the appropriate time, and we are used to the fact that there is a store, there are funds, you go to work, keep your wages, go buy. Why will it be bought, extra barn in the house?
My husband and I did not have these problems, because my husband also likes salt sheets and sugar.
We volunteered, so somewhere we had some shampoo hanging in the car. Washes here, washes there. That is, at that time you somehow did not pay attention to whether he is like that, whether he fits under that hair, or not. And I still had a bio-curl at that time. I had to wash my head once a week, or I could wash it once every two Sundays.
The man has cigarettes, fuel. What else is the need? Was she in clothes or what? And then, I said, although I unloaded my closets while the girls were moving away. And when they had to change into civilian clothes, I say, please. A man says to me here: "Thank God, even though the barn is taken out of the house, because there are so many jackets, so many pants". There was already a problem with shoes. I say: "Girls, I don't have shoes anymore".
I have such a memorable incident. When we went to Chemer to somehow collect the help that the residents collected for the boys, I was so impressed. Such bowls were untied with boards. I open it, and the grandmothers pulled out embroidered towels from the chests just for shaking. And this surprised me the most that these are all kinds of embroidered towels, their pillowcases. They gave everything for the boys, they said, it was more necessary there.
That is, it is handmade, people did it themselves, it was stored in chests, but it was white, it was so white-white, I say, now there is no such color. And these are aluminum spoons, I remembered. Such a bag somewhere, it's them somewhere or from the attic where it was. Because I remember such spoons, I always had such spoons in my grandmother's attic. They were pulled out only on special occasions.
And I understand that people even have these reserves, because these aluminum spoons are where, they are very old reserves, that is, the residents at that time were ready to give everything, everything for the sake of victory. I know that this aluminum spoon was the most valuable thing for the woman that was acquired at that time. Something, these spoons, these towels, well, really stuck in my memory.
