Civil War report

Now, I did not think that in the twenty -first century I would watch with my own eyes what I saw only in the cinema about civilian. The Donetsk Republic, clashes under a skew, incomprehensible flags, villages that are divided into “ours” and “not ours”, the robbery of the population, peasants with icons against the war ... The feeling of falling into “elusive avengers” is almost complete. Sur. Chapaev and Void

If the tachanks appear behind them due to the turn, I will not be surprised

The Ukrainian army expands the controlled zone and puts new checkpoints. Two new posts exhibited on the Donetsk -Kharkov highway, at the strategic intersection of Slavyansk -Red Liman. Exhibited with battle, twice the enemy beat them back. On the third.

The checkpoints, by and large, control only themselves, and partially the route Donetsk-Kharkov. Movement along the track for separatists is now impossible, but the green is not controlled by anyone. The reconnaissance groups of those and others walk along the green, permanent clashes. The forests here are very thick.

The main theater of military operations in Slavyansk shifted to the northeast in the Seleznevka region. The shooting there is permanent.

The largest battle in the last days was in the area of ​​the brick factory. According to one of the participants in this battle, the losses among the fighters of the Donetsk Republic can be up to a hundred people. It is still impossible to confirm or refute this data, but the intelligence of the Ukrainian army, which entered the plant after the battle, says that there were many bodies of the dead.

The second disturbing point is Gora Karachun. But there are no more fights, only shelling. On other blocks around the city, there are no active actions yet.

One of the posts is located in the village of Rybkhoz. These are the outskirts of Slavyansk. Not the best place for war. In front of the hills, behind the lake. And a thick green around.

At the congress from the highway, some incomprehensible water tower with some incomprehensible flag on it. The flag appeared a couple of days ago. What it means and to whom it belongs is unclear. Is it dangerous or not, too. Who are these people, what they want, whom they consider supporters, and who the devil knows him. Somehow walk.

Further along the road is a small group of people. Mostly women. The procession. Pray for peace. From this war, everyone has already been tired. The faces are concentrated, tense. They have already stopped trusting strangers here. You will almost never meet smiles. First of all, you are expecting danger from you.

The technique really appears. Just not the tachanks - their modern modification, an armored personnel carrier. A column of several boxes goes somewhere on the highway.

We drive up to the fishhosis. The fighters at the checkpoint are also tense. They are waiting for shelling or attacks at any time. Actually, they happen at any time. Journalists are wary. “You are here now, and then they will be fired again by your reports ...” I know that he himself knows-a block-post right on the road, everyone is driving through him and even children know him, but I do not argue. But at the same time, the fighters are still quite correct. This feature is the normal communication of security forces with civilians, especially striking. Even if civilians are not trusted. As, for example, to us now. But in the end, they are still allowed to make several frames. Although under hard control, so that nothing superfluous in the frame falls.

On board the bus - children's drawings that schoolchildren send soldiers to the front line. Such things in war are extremely seriously. In general, human feelings here are perceived in a completely different way. You really appreciate them. Awareness of the possibility of one’s own death, albeit hypothetical (no one still believes in his death) exacerbates the feeling of life to the acuteness of a razor blade. The sentimentality in the war is hypertrophic in the same proportion as cynicism. Not even sentimentality, but ... in general, you begin to understand that in life the main thing. What is really valuable and what - so, husk. These children's drawings about the world from unfamiliar students of the 1st “B” class of the 130th school of the city of Kyiv, stuck on board the military bus are really valuable. Nobody admits a joke or neglect of them: they show in the first place. Feel - they are proud.

And the bullet holes under these drawings ... In any other place, it would certainly look like a terrible pathos. A replayed scene from a low -grade movie about the war. Here - no. Here is war. And here it is all visiting.

Like a funny homemade armored car with a mimic coloring, converted from a pickupa.

Twenty minutes after the journalist left this place, the battle begins here. How they grinned ...

A mortar works. Then the rifle enters. Almost information comes - this time there are no losses.