I am Mykola Stepanovych Tereshchenko, a resident of the village of Khreshchate. My parents, grandfathers, great-grandfathers were born here. All great-grandfathers were rural people engaged in agriculture. At different times, but there were no military pilots. Although the grandfathers both fought in the Great Patriotic War.

Let's put it this way, we don't have a beginning of the year and we don't have an end. There is no point in the fact that our farm is engaged in both animal husbandry and crop production. Like all peasants.

And the circle of animal husbandry works all year round. Basically, we start the plans from the period, as we see how the realization of the grown crop is going, which will be the arrival.

Let's put it this way, 2022 was such a year of great expectations, because there was a very good price for our products. And this price was rising all the time. It was precisely here that the warehouses were filled. We have already literally planned to sell from mid-February ‒ to early March. Two or three days were not enough for all this to go on en masse.

We had, let's say, four families in February-March. Three daughters. One daughter stayed and returned, she was afraid to leave her husband in Irpin. The middle daughter and son-in-law, I have doctors, and we had a granddaughter Katya, and a younger daughter, son-in-law too.

Well, we heard all this on February 24, when our house began to shuffle with every shot. It was unexpected. And I immediately turned on the TV to look for news.

To say that he melted tightly, no. Because I knew that people were waiting for me here and I had to go here. And here solve all problems. At home, he and his wife were somehow still worried. No one thought that it would stretch to such a size and reach such a scale. Well, she stayed at home, she's retired, and I went to work.

In the following days, the war was somehow still not felt. And while one morning, maybe the second morning or the third, I certainly get up early. Still at dusk. I also go out on a plane. I don't know whose he is, but he went so low. More than that, what is katsapskyi. Passed so low that I sat down. And here I was somehow, let's say, wedged.

Little by little, information about the victims and damages caused there began to arrive here. That's right, for a week. Well, I started preparing people for what you might want.

Local shops closed their doors. And that's it, they have nothing. The market did not work, they stopped driving. They understood that it would be necessary to somehow solve the problem with bread. We had our own grain. We rebuilt a compound feed plant that made products for animals. I consulted with partners who bought grain from us. How can we do in our conditions of torment. They say it's okay. I remembered it that way.

Quite a good torment came out. Olga Dmytrovna worked, she is a pensioner. I say: "Anna Olga Dmytrovna, let's go home, bake bread, let's try".

She arrives, made a conclusion that everything is fine, it will not disappear. In addition, we have our own dairy farm. The Kulikovo dairy did not take milk. We immediately saw that it would be and the cows had to be milked. At first, they began to distribute milk to people, who wanted as much as they wanted. We see that people abuse. We then rearranged ourselves. In addition, we have a pig farm. Part of the milk began to be given to pigs.

We transferred our own oil mill to oil. This minimal product allowed our people to feel at ease.

You know, somehow, then, they got involved a little like that. Such a sense that it is still nothing that will be very difficult ahead. I often returned to this and I can't remember what in a name that told me we could have shelling? As usual Saturday, the team that serves the farm went to feed the animals.

We went to the field. The watering can, we call that technique, scatters fertilizers, because that's exactly what the period was like. And about eleven o'clock I say to my girls: "Girls, today is Saturday, and we have Saturday until the time of the working day. We will disperse earlier. Collect water and be prepared so you can hide in the robbery. Take a crowbar with you, so that there is an ax.

And it was literally people who parted ways, the unit had not yet arrived from the field. I was left to close the dots myself. I hear, it is already flying along Khreshchaty, already above the point. At least I'm under the covers, but what a defense there is. I hear something ramming. This is where such a cononade on Khreshchaty began.

I'm calling Vadim, we have a tractor driver, a young boy:

― Vadim, where are you?, ‒ I say. ‒ Are you done with work?

― No, I'm at the complex.

― And why are you there at the complex?

― And I, ‒ says the tractor driver, ‒ left the tractor because they are already shooting there.

I lock the gate, I know that no one will come. There is shelling in the village, I'm going home. The shelling has just subsided. There's a barn burning down on the way. I drove home. Is everything okay? Normal. Anuka cried that she was very scared. She sat near the window. She drew. Then, he says that her legs have died. Baba says to get on the stove, to warm up. And she literally heard it. Just climbed onto the stove. And shrapnel in the window.

Well, thank God there was a son-in-law at home. And one and the other. So they organized a cellar. Everyone was quickly promoted. Everything was ready in our cellar. And the products were minimal. And water.

I have the remains of hurricanes in the garden. The neighbor walks around the garden. He says: "Look what they did". I answer: "Vasyl Oksantivych, quickly hide that you are walking". And that's just what I said, a new shelling.

The phone rings: "Mykola Stepanovych, we have a gas riser burning here and a house burning". I say: "With the house I will not help you, ‒ and there the house was empty. ‒ And someone will come by the riser now".

I'm coming, people have gathered. Well, a man can be 50 there. They, someone with buckets. Strangles gathered. No one felt fear.

It burned in four eyes. In addition to what is here, there were three more eyes. I come to the center, sent a fire truck, proved where it was necessary. And he stopped home again. It was already a little scary for the family.

In addition, it was called that two of our people died, one of our employees. And what exactly is so lunchtime that I send them home, Andrii Ponomarenko, and he was here for repairs at the point. He says: "I don't have much left here, Saturday, what should I do at home? Let me collect." "No, ‒ I say, ‒ Andrii, such a situation that let's all go earlier today, let's close". I sent him home, he literally, maybe 80 meters from the point of life. And there was the arrival of ‒ and his father. My employees reported it.

You won't think of where you will be useful and how to use yourself. To say that something scared me, I was only scared after looking at the consequences of what they were. I don't know at what point a bunch of tapes fell on the spot.

We have both a cellar and a basement at home. My son-in-law divided us into two teams, one in the basement, one in the cellar. If, God forbid, something happens to one, the other can help in some way. I have it so thoughtful on this topic ‒ medic. He predicted everything, prepared everything. In addition, my younger daughter was pregnant, my granddaughter was born on June 22. So there were all the amenities for her. It is.

In agriculture, you can't give up, because if you lose time, you don't need to do anything even then. As our grandfathers said, how are you going to die ‒ pasha bread. So we are the same.

Especially since the people who worked for me, no one left me, no one was afraid, no one went anywhere. Part of the village came to us, and part left.

Moreover, when we had already established cooperation with the people of Nizhen, they went to get bread and brought medicines. People gave lists of what they needed and we gave money to these volunteers. They bought it for us, brought it, and distributed it to people accordingly.

Let's just say there was some belief that we were the extreme point. People came here with every trouble, with every problem.

Now we remember and analyze the war. What was done right, what was wrong. I returned, unscrewed how many times my memory. It is clear that he would not leave. Probably, he would have done the same.

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