Maidan. Labbation

An attempt to free the center of Kyiv from tents ended in fire and smoke

“... Tell me, is it called Euromaidan?” Is this Europe? This is Egypt! Boxes on every corner: “Serve, serve ...” Who only winds them up? Go to, fight on the Donbass - yesterday the centurion gathered volunteers, did it leave with him? For Putin, to be weak? No, they beat in their backs, provocateurs! Suspect, the Nazis did not smash so baptism!

An elderly Ukrainian -speaking man indignantly waves his hand towards the barricade from the tires, which appeared near the chief post and is already blazing with might and main.

The entrance to the telegraph (the premises never released the “right sector”) is littered with reinforcement: inside they were protected from a possible assault. Nearby, fifteen people in masks and balaclavas are already hammering a brand new, recently laid paving stones - they are preparing for battle. Four more with all their might pound with sticks on a metal container for garbage - a kind of alarm. Barricade is dragged with gasoline, long green cones made of plastic: the remains of the notorious “Yanukovych Christmas tree”. In black fat smoke, the panel “Glory to Ukraine” is hidden, which ciminated the skeleton of the unions that burned out in February in February. Nearby there is a car gut and a dozen three police officers in body armor, in helmets, with weapons. From time to time, loud pops are heard, similar to explosions.

... - Nothing, in London, on Trafalgar Square, also protesters gather, give the heat of power! -shouts in response to the Ukrainian-speaking uncle in Russian his peer. - You can’t leave here! Power should be afraid of the people, and not spit on it! Where is lustration? Where is the election to the Rada? Some oligarchs were changed to others, the traitors are robbing the army, are you watching the TV? “Berkutov”, the BB-Shnikov changed, again throw it at us! Where? There, with machine guns, the Kyiv-1 battalion, yeah! These are not former self -defensemen, I see by faces! The Maidanovets will never be next to the cop, never!

- And in the Donbass stand, fight together! - Coals the Ukrainian -speaking.

- Ah, you, bastard, provocateur, Kremlin agent! -The one who speaks in Russian is completely out of himself.

- I'm an agent?!

Ukrainian -speaking jerk raises the leg. Below the knee are two deep, pink, prolonged dents.

- A fragment of grenades, on Institutskaya, February 19. The fourth hundred. To name who was from me from Kiev? You definitely weren't there!

There is nothing to cover visas - he has no wounds. Reduces speed:

- Anyway, it is not good. Maidan cannot be cleaned by force. The communal workers were caught up ... Klitschko needs to ensure that the transport began to walk here, Poroshenko is impatient with the parade. (August 24, on Independence Day, a parade is planned on Khreshchatyk, as the President of Ukraine has already announced - OM ) and then - a holy place, here the killed people lay everywhere.

-... Ahhh, bro, the cops burn us! - Curses and laments into the phone, leaning against a kiosk from the shadow side, a half -naked character, whose face is spilled with an alcoholic past and present. Boxes with beer, coat, mineral water are hastily evacuated from under the canopy, and ice cream cups fall on the asphalt and spots. It is difficult to understand whether street merchants themselves evacuate their goods, or Marauders already help them according to trifles.

A person in camouflage and sunglasses on the floor of his face reports to someone on the phone:

- Who am I talking to? Valentine? Ours on the part of the people's house (this refers to the Ukrainian house, where the inhabitants of the tents were also located - OM ) captured two of their cars. They retreat.

Nearby, the priest in the cassock quietly admits several civilian gentlemen:

- Do you understand what resonance will turn out before the end of the day?!

The fighters of the Kyiv-1 battalion, from the very beginning of the operation that covered the communal workers, among whom there were many women, indeed, no longer visible. Bulldozers with trucks are not visible. A clouded lifting crane escorts a group of boys in masks of “anonymous” and with bits with a whistle and applause. Someone covered him ... by other people's shields, broken by bullets. These shields of the dead in the winter stand in Khreshchatyk surrounded by lamps and flowers.

Almost flush with the metro station, burning out two tents, they are watered from fire fighters from the corpus delicti. Heaps of Scarba from tents - half -stroke blankets, mattresses, boots, extension cords - lying around nearby. Things are more valuable - a refrigerator with a “heavenly hundred” sticker and a smoked cauldron - exhibited on the sidewalk.

The operation to clean the territory began at about nine in the morning, on Thursday. Three hundred workers in orange vests undertook to disassemble the barricades and remove the tents from the Cossack hotel. The intervention of the police was required immediately-the Maidanists still did not agree to any compromises to “move from here, for example, to the hostel”. The first clashes began. Then the police announced: weapons were found - cuts, pistols, cartridges for them and blanks for Molotov cocktails.

For several days in a row, news from a tent town in the center of Kyiv appeared in the section of the criminal chronicle. That “self -defense team” burst into a restaurant in the role of raiders, then the “group of unknown people” captured a private clinic, which, incidentally, has worked as a central hospital in the Maidan since spring. "The authorities deliberately arrange provocations, sets up citizens against us!" - The Council of Sotnikov was indignant, a public organization that arose when, in fact, the need for barricades in the capital disappeared. The sensation grows stronger: stripping is about to occur. But they did not dare to bring her by force.

... - Mobilization! All in Kyiv, to protect the Maidan! - Shouts from the stage into the microphone someone in brand new camouflage and "armor". The scene has practically no public.