The year was ordinary. Ordinary weekdays, preparation for sowing, working moments. That is, with whom he did not communicate, perhaps the attack will be talked. And I also thought, if you think logically, it makes sense then Russia would invade here in order to receive these sanctions completely. And it turned out that the sanctions do not work in full. Cold weather began between Belarus and Ukraine. 

They are completely covered with diesel, because there will be a shortage and travel in the spring. They were preparing for working days, sowing.

 Well, the first two days [since February 24th] there was a stupor. Just not understanding the situation. Well, then, thank God, we didn't have someone like someone telling us, some atrocities, and so on. Well, that those katsapchiki came ‒ baby, baby. They themselves did not fully understand where they were drawn. I won't say that everyone didn't understand. Command, even those companies, they, as it turns out, understood combat tasks.

Look here, we have two companies of contract workers living on the street as [the troops of the occupiers] drove in for ten days. Even here, in order to go to the toilets, they asked for a decision, they did not enter the yard. They had an order not to take products from the civilian population. They were afraid that they would not poison them.

 No one was going to leave here. And it so happened in our country that here you have to go to the household by will and will (because lovers of freebies began to shuffle here in order to collect something).

 It was on the 28th at ten o'clock. I read this on Facebook that at nine o'clock or half past eight there was already a column in Kotsyubinsky. I go outside, and there the first column came to us. The first tank. I ran out there, at the corner, I look. Yolki-stick! Swamp-green technique and circles on the sides. Tides. I think what will happen next? One tank went to the village, then the second tank. And three BMPs.

On the 28th, there was practically no communication. Then we came here and it has already started... There are no sad people sitting there who came here, they knew perfectly well on the phones. First, what the EWs included, muffled the connection. And equipment was installed on these tigers. Wherever the signal is illuminated, the phone immediately pulls up ‒ in this house. The phone was just turned on. It is not online, but the signal has already gone.

 The Russians feel their fingers.

― And who are you?, ‒ they say. 

― I'm generally local, ‒ answer.

― And documents? 

― Documents, phone, all things, your first numbers that came in were taken away.

Well, true, I sat with them for another forty minutes. And the commander drove them up, and he lived and got away from us through the house.

― It's local, let go, ‒ says commander that. ‒ Where will you go?

― Where? I will go home. Where will I go?, ‒ I answer.

 In our basement, as they say, there is a whole community. The basement, it turns out, is about the same for half a house. Concrete covers. That is, everything was, let's say, compared to others, so we lived in normal conditions. The main thing is only to listen to where the arrival comes from, so as not to come here.

 I went to Chernihiv, took the godfather, her eldest son, the draftswoman, then my brother-in-law, Leshina's mother-in-law, then a woman with children and two families. 

Three families were driving towards Kyiv, some road was blocked there, they turned to Shestovytsia. There were three of them in total. Well, they also turned to the neighbor. As you sit, so it remained. And also a plus, neighbor and mother, she is 86 years old. She survived two wars. And plus, as we were going to, I myself went in ‒ in shock. Well, I was in the garage all the time. Someone had to be there.

In principle, as long as we were there during the occupation, it was calmer for children to sleep and for women in the basement, because there were always these shellings. Somewhere, probably, 400 - 500 meters from our house, arta worked. One night they spent the night at home, and the other they went from here to the basement. "We didn't sleep at night, ‒ say. ‒ We are afraid of shelling, and in the basement it is much quieter there, we got used to it". 

 Gas, there was light. Then they shut off our gas. "Hook, hide", ‒ screaming katsaps. If the gas was turned off, there will be shelling now. They did the right thing by turning off the gas so that the houses would not burn. And all ‒ started a fun life. And for two months they saw no gas, no light, no Internet, nothing. I say: "This is a beautiful Russian measure".

We are constantly at work, we feed workers. So this is sugar, flour, food stocks. Frozen Tuvinians took the fish from the refrigerator and raked it.

And you don't need a refrigerator at home. He slaughtered the chicken and everything: borscht, soup, you can eat everything. And we had warmth on an old Soviet wooden boiler that works without electricity. In some where there were gas boilers ‒ there is no gas, nothing, and the oak tree is full. And the plus is that we had a stove.

In the morning, the oven is broken, breakfast is cooked and lunch is healthy: a twenty-liter pot so that there is enough for the whole horde. And it turns out to stay for the evening. And plus there is some such porridge. That is, thank God, there were no problems in this.

 Tomorrow's day is no different from yesterday's. What to do? Yes, they went outside for a week just for water. And, the main thing is that you need to get water early, because there is only one well. It has not been cleaned for a long time, you will only collect sand.

 There was a non-residential house next door. We bought it, installed freezers. There was one guy who left his military backpack, so let him lie here, because he can't drag it with him. Then he will come, so he will take it. Well, that backpack was left there without a single thought. And how those narrow-eyed broke the lock. They find that backpack. And there is a military uniform. "Where is the military?", ‒ shout. Let's grow. Let's look for that military man. In short, the house was turned over, that's how it is. Lyokhin is found by a soldier. Like, here, military. I say: "You look at the date when it was".

Everything was raked out of the freezer, lard, meat, and frozen mushrooms were loaded. That's it. And they found a treasure ‒ box of vodka, a box of horse meat and a box of wine in the house. This is generally beauty already. The mood has already risen in them.

 Then he somehow drives from the side of the forest, flies to the motolygi. He stands here under the house, gets a dry drink: "Let's wave. Goose come on." I say: "Take the goose, just don't shoot. Kids here, don't shoot".

In the Urals, they jump in: "Come on. Two." "Well catch them, ‒ say, ‒ weft, yolk sticks".

And then a slipper on the street comes up to me. He says: "You look, if they come next time, they will demand duck, so you come to us".

They have already learned during the occupation, they just adapted. You already know how it is with these "clear guys". We never really avoided any apathy. It's just that monotony was pressing. I say that when those katsapchiki were on the street, they did not allow them to walk around the village. And then, you understand, to sit in one place all the time. It's just that the brains melted, what to do next.

And in farmers, what ‒ how to sow?, how to work further? This never left me. Was there something that went on, on, on? It is necessary to sow, because spring. Sow what? How long will they be here?

 We had such a field kitchen in the garage here. I think what I didn't take home then. Oh, she would be useful. But, in principle, the main thing is that they have adapted normally. Two burnt field kitchens, camas, vats, probably 40 or 50 liters each, were broken on the street. They were dug out from there, made of a brick slab. The armor plate was placed like this, the stove was made. Two vats stand ‒ bath day will be hot water.

Well, we are used to the fact that you don't open the faucet, because you know, there is no water there. Of course, he quickly gets used to it back when he gets on his own. And the only thing you understand very well is the meaning of the Russian measure.

 It was psychologically difficult. Where to recover from? Fields and plus April month. After two weeks you have to sow. And there is no equipment, there are no spare parts, there is no diesel, no one drives, but you have to sow.

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