Translated material
For Odessa
A three -day mourning has been declared in Odessa. More than 40 people died in street battles and in a fire in the house of trade unions. The tragedy began with the attack of pro -Russian militants on a patriotic procession. We give evidence of eyewitnesses and comments of journalists who analyzed the video.
MARCH attack for a united Ukraine
Maxim Motin , Odessa municipal deputy: “There was football today.“ Chernomorets ”from Odessa against Metalist from Kharkov. Fans all play for a single Ukraine, so they met before the game and wanted to go through a peaceful march for a single Ukraine. When the fans and the Odessa were just turned by the Cathedral Square, they went from the lane an attack on people in masks, with masks, None of the Odessa and Kharkov residents and Kharkiv, but the attackers did not expect the locals to repulse it.
Elena Klein , a computer science teacher at the Odessa school: “It has been accepted in our country that before the football matches the ultras of the encountered teams are going on a peaceful joint march for the unity of the country. So today such a march was supposed to go from the Cathedral Square. Since Putin was expected to be performed by the authors (“ Putin - Huylo . ” - Ed.), Suddenly people came to sing ... sudden The coloras of the stones flew at first, then the ultrace was opened.
Elena Rykovtseva , Observer of Radio Liberty: “At 16:30, I left the bus at the intersection of Bunin and Aleksandrovskaya streets. And I saw a convoy of demonstrators on the Alexander Street, headed by a fire car for some reason. The column stopped on Bunin Street. I went up and began to photograph its participants. Many of them were in helmets and camouflage. What is happening that there are mainly Black Sea and Metalist football, that they went to their march in support of the united Ukraine. And they are waiting for an attack here. Then there was a pause of silence at 30 seconds. And then people suddenly ran to them from the side of Aleksandrovskaya street. All these people, oddly enough, were in orange helmets. Fans did not wait for orange helmets to break through the first row (with shields) and rushed towards them. A brawl began. "
Poll LENEC , activist of Euromaidan: “We (Euromaidan) gathered at 15:00 on Cathedral Square and prepared to go in an Odessa march to show that Odessa is Ukraine. At about 15:30 on Greek Street from Athena (shopping center. - Ed.) The system of pro -Russian activists in complete combat ammunition began to approach. Police. Police. Police. Police. Police. Police. Police. Police. Police. Police I built two living fences, and the secondly blocking them on both sides began to disassemble the street on the paving stones and throwing the police and loudly exploding the first -hour. The Euro -Maiden decided to bypass the pro -Russian from the flank of the Zhukovsky Street and I was in this group. Then the pro -Russian went in a counterattack, throwing us with stones and firechers. The huge cobblestone fell a couple of centimeters from my head, a fragment broke off from him and hit my eyebrow. The blood poured a lot, it was really scary. After that, I realized that it would not be possible to lay down, and as soon as ours began to throw stones in response, I managed to run into the crowd around the corner. There I met the first wounded firearm. The guy shot the artery on his leg, and scarlet blood simply whipped out of it, like from a fountain. At the same time, he was clearly in a state of shock and assured that everything was in order with him. With a few more guys, we carried him to some kind of home-made first-aid post. "
Oleg Kozyrev , Russian journalist: “An impressive group of anti -Ukrainian fighters, with indulgence (or maybe support), the police attacked a peaceful procession for the unity of Ukraine. Perhaps they wanted to arrange the same battle as Donetsk. They were seriously attacked with sticks, bats, sapper shoulder blades, and some even fired. Part of traumatic weapons, and some used part Firearm ".
Vladimir Kholyshev , Russian journalist: “When the enemy appeared, a handful of self -defensemen moved forward to close an impressive crowd of elegant citizens and Kharkov guests. And then hell began, for which no one was ready. This hell was arranged by a compact group of saboteurs acting under the cop cover ... both the raids and the cops have the same identities on the hands of the red. Scotch tape.
Video Lera Ivashkina:
The first murdered
“Poll Lenec :“ A dead guy was lying covered by the Ukrainian flag. A random person took a mobile pocket from him, called his father and said: “Your son was shot. Come, take him to Deribasovskaya.” The first frame that I saw, returning to Zhukovsky, is how from the pro -Russian crowd covered by the shields, the machine gunner sticks out. Kalashnikova (just shooting in our crowds, a bunch of wounded ones immediately got into the side.
Fragment of video broadcasting "The First Odessa Portal":
Contracent of Ukrainian patriots
“ Looking at the layouts of forces, I began to understand that we, patriots, are much more, but the pro -Russian are much better armed and organized. I thought that if they have enough weapons, they will kill us or disperse us all. But this is the strength of the Ukrainian people. Despite the shooting from the pro -Russian crowd, they went more and more of our activists. With the tables of street cafes, people fled to the machines for the next few hours, we blocked the pro-Russian along the entire perimeter, holding the Greek and unfinished Parking of Athena. conflict ".
Maxim Motin : “After the Odessa residents are self -organized, they drove the provocateurs into Athena’s shopping center (some fled and disappeared into the house of trade unions). Everything went to the reprisal of them inside (the shopping center. - Ed.). But the police closed the entrance and exit (I think, thereby saved the provocateurs, entered the building, twisted the provocateurs and loaded the provocateurs and loaded the provocateurs and loaded the provocateurs and loaded the provocateur to auto -zak ".
Zoya Kazanzhi , an activist of the Odessa Euro -Maidan: “When the Fighters of the Fighters of the Falcol from the Athena’s shopping center withdrew the pro -Russian activists who had settled there, the crowd was ready to tear them out. Miraculously managed to send them in special vehicles to the police department. People shouted: Drop to their Russia! What are you doing with Odessa?
Elena Klein : “Fire from pistols is conducted from the roof of Athens. The number of wounded and killed is growing. There are already four killed. When the“ Sokol ”arrived and began to knit colorades and remove them from“ Athena ”, the people went to remove the Coloras camp from Kulikovo. For they got it.”
Oleg Kozyrev : “This time, there were many ultras at a peaceful demonstration, which were actually one of the organizers of the procession. They were able to quickly fight back and did what the police could not do. Again, this is not a police, but they were opposed by the bandits, this rebuff was also cruel.”
Battle on Greek Square
Ivan Stakhov , Odessa reporter: “The fighting continued on Deribasovskaya. From the pro-Russian side, there was a line from the Kalashnikov assault rifle and many shots from pistols. From improvised means of ultras and Maidan activists, they began to cost the barricade on the street of Vice Admiral Zhukov, so as not to allow new victims. Both sides of the conflict began to build barricades on Greek squares, there and there and there and there. The most powerful collision took place. We went to the Athena shopping center and began to throw with the galleries that fell by the arm and firing at the people standing below. "
“Poll Lenec :“ The Euro -Maidanists were completely not ready for battle. In addition to a couple of dozens of self -defense fighters, ours did not even have helmets, not like armor -offers. Over time, automatic and pistol shots began to be heard less and less and then it stopped at all. It is clear that the patriots went on the attack from Greek Square, pushing the Greek, pushing around the Greek. The Council of Police was still lined up by the Cordon of the Police, which gave the Prostean Cordon, but the crowd quickly crushed this cordon and began to pursue the pro -Russian throughout the area. It was impossible to persuade them with sticks. I dodged, and he was stunned on the head of a bat. I no longer defended him. After the pro -Russian was finally dispersed, he saw that the streets and Square of Polita Blood everywhere. "
“Vladimir Kholyshev :“ You just look at the photos in which the girls almost a couple with pensioners carry stones. Look at which hellish “radicals” (with glasses and iPhones) are pulled out of the hands of the cops that have been fucked up from such impudence to the wall of the textbook “polite person” in complete equipment. And they pulled out a balaclac from him. ”
Boris Kherson , a psychiatrist, a poet, a resident of Odessa: “Ultras was ready to attack. And soon they themselves turned into attackers. They managed to push the anti -Maidan people into the building of the Athena shopping center and block them there. The forces of the law enforcement, who covered the Antimaydanes and gave them the opportunity to get out of the encirclement and scattering. They looked at the same way as a chain and a lock on its free end - a formidable weapon! A few more people died in this area The crowd leads the ball to the gate to score a goal, of course, I noticed several people in the crowd.
Kulikovo Field
Oleg Kozyrev : "From the roof of the house of trade unions they began to shoot at those who are below. This is clearly visible on the video - and even visible the moment when this crowd recoiled due to shooting."
Poll Lenec : "From the windows (the house of trade unions. - Ed.), Pro -Russian began the strongest shelling of the area we occupied. But already in the Kulikovo field I saw pistols in our crowd."
Elena Klein : “Coloras locked themselves in the house of trade unions on the Kulikovo field. And they started firing a fire from the roofs: a firearm, Molotov cocktails, stones and such pieces of reinforcement, cooked by a hedgehog. From the roof they will fall on the head - according to various sources (but most likely both are right), and from burning tents, and the building fell on top of the cocktails.”
Video Darina Shortko:
Video Vladimir Pavlov:
Fire in the House of Trade Unions
“ Vladimir Kholyshev :“ Who set fire to the house of trade unions? If you carefully look at the record, it is obvious that both sides tried. There are at least two cases (on high floors), when the fire source was clearly inside the building. At the same time, you can clearly see how Molotov’s cocktails fly from the outside (judging by the power of the flame at the entrance, they were played mainly there). Two circumstances played there). The “recluses”, obviously, were poorly oriented in the building, and they themselves failed the central entrance and could not quickly make out the barricade.
“ Ivan Stakhov :“ The activists managed to break into the house of trade unions from the spare entrance and occupy the side rooms on the floors. At that time, from the side of the remains of the barricades before the main entrance to the facade, the buildings flew by Molotov’s cocktails. After that the corridor was ignited behind the main input. When the smoke reached the windows, people began to crawl out of the windows, including women. ”
“Poll Lenec :“ It immediately became clear that if nothing was done - they would burn out there. The police were not there at all. They just stood and inactive, but didn’t even go to Kulikovo. Very soon, at a completely intuitive level, everyone understood that they had to be saved. And more than an hour passed since the arson on Kulikovs, but not a single fire engine was disassembled. Its colonials, so that the pro-Russian can get up to the top to save them. I don’t know what moved from the rescue columns, they mainly beat them up to the loss of consciousness ... Firefighters acted disgusting, slowly and chose the most safe positions. People simply took away the life stairs from them and climbed to save the separatists themselves. The salvation of pro -Russian from fire went faster, and their main rescuers were those at whom they shot an hour ago. "
Sergey Dibrov : “Some people were taken out of the building, some were taken out. Those who were taken out were immediately loaded in the“ ambulances ”. Those who were taken out, actually interrogated, searched for people with weapons that shot from the windows. Naturally, none of the exit weapons had with them. There were those who tried to kick or even hit them with a stick. They were quickly reassured. None of those who were taken out to death did not score. I took a nonsense of the Maidan’s all this from the left facade wing of the building, from the burning of the third and second floors. The Maidanovsky is called from the earth, they are scurrying around and throwing ropes, dragging the designs ... from the roof, they throw stones and improvised objects - plates, cups ... People from the third floor are trying to shout to them, they say, do not throw it ... At that time, some kind of ear is running up to the building and throwing a coquettry. Fortunately, unsuccessfully. They intelligibly explain to him that he was wrong, almost beaten. "
The Maidanites save people from the burning house of trade unions. Video Sergei Dibrov:
Police with red bandages
Sergey Dibrov , Odessa public figure: “By link (starting from 5:00 mark), you can see that some police officers have a red strip on the hand of a primotan’s hand. I paid attention to it, but did not give special importance. Later they told me that the same tape was on the arm of people in a protective color that shot people from rifled weapons. Police to explain this? "
Who participated in clashes from the pro -Russian side
Максим Мотин : "Это провокаторы, которых привезли. Я вчера (накануне столкновений. - Ред.) был на этом Куликовом поле, там было 20 человек, несколько пьяных с георгиевскими лентами и все. Никаких сторонников в Одессе нет у них (мне найти не удалось, спрашивал вновь у всех)".
Зоя Казанжи : "В лагере на 411-й батареи (второй палаточный лагерь Антимайдана, разгромленный после событий на Куликовом поле. - Ред.) остались документы - бойцы из Луганска и Крыма. Представители казачества. Говорят, что это даёт им право носить огнестрельное оружие. Из него они и стреляли".
Елена Рыковцева : "...Парень из отряда болельщиков по имени Дмитрий, который принимал участие и в дневном шествии, и в разгроме палаточного лагеря, сказал, что он уверен: "Они сюда больше не сунутся, потому что поняли, кто здесь сила". Я спросила: кто сегодня сражался против них, фанатов? Он сказал, что это были люди с одесского Антимайдана, было также много приезжих из Николаева и Донецка... Кстати, сегодня жители города рассказывали мне, что одесские маклеры на полном серьезе спрашивают: "Вы для кого квартиру снимаете? Для шпионов?" Меня уверяют, что все съемные квартиры, все санатории Одессы наводнены мужчинами из России, которые тихо живут в номерах и комнатках по одному, по двое. Ждут своего часа".