"Houses are burning, but our still seems to be"

Residents of the border regions of the Belgorod region tried on the fate of refugees

Since the end of May, the Belgorod region border with Ukraine has been regularly undergoing shelling. Local authorities also reported attempts to break through saboteurs from Ukraine into the territory of the region. In the closest to the border of the city of Shebekino, houses, shops, cars are burning. As a result of the shelling of the village of Maslova, the marina in the car died two women - from the fragments of shells. Two more women died in the new Tavolzhanka and in Silovyovka. It was also reported about released shells from the Grad along the private sector in the village of Sobolevka - 18 arrivals were recorded there, three people were killed, seven were injured of varying severity. All this is informed by the regional administration.

Thousands of residents of the border of the Belgorod region are forced to flee. Many left without everything, without money and documents. There are hundreds in Belgorod chats, if not thousands of requests for helping items of first necessity: medicines, diapers, teapots, trays for cats ... News of the “new” from the line to the points of issuing humanitarian aid in Belgorod.

"Gopher. Old already. He ran after us, after the car, when we left "

At the Cosmos sports center - a queue that begins from the entrance and stretches further along the sidewalk. I have at least a hundred people. Grandmothers in colorful robes and slippers, grandfather on crutches in a T -shirt, pants and slippers. Children are worn underfoot.

“Lech! Le Ha! " - A man is drawn up with a cigarette, looking for a long time towards a neighbor. At first he does not see him, then he notices - the man blurred in a smile. He presses his hand and presses it tightly to himself: “Hello, I’m screaming to you, I have been screaming for five minutes, I think I will not scream until I notice. Have you been standing for a long time? " Nearby, a woman in a T -shirt and shorts, also with a cigarette, says on the phone: “Mom, well, you are for me about these photos for the second time. I barely dragged the microwave and Toster with Vladik, I would have been looking for photos there, yes, yes, of course ... Yes, you told me yesterday, I was in shock, his god saved, probably. And I would have slept - and did not wake up. "

On the street - plus 25 degrees. The head is strongly baking. Machines of the Ministry of Emergencies are on duty nearby. In the shadow under the Christmas tree - a large box with water bottles. Rescuers set up awning, grandmothers are already standing in line to sit under them on a bench, hide from the scorching sun. The blonde in dark glasses finishes to speak on the phone, puts it in a bag, tugs a cross, and then he suddenly turns to me:

“Quadrocopters hang over us! The sister now called the cousin, she remained in Shebekinino, says, the looters are robbing at home. Break the windows. Of course, shops have long been plundered, nothing works.

Did someone take something [from things]? I didn’t take anything. And you know, to go, behind this washing machine, when there are arrivals without end ... Does it make sense to lose your life or get injuries to pick up the kettle? ”

Next to us on a curb, a black -haired woman is sitting in lilac iris. She coughs a little and is drawn by a cigarette for a long time. Her name is Katya. A friend runs up to her, Marina. He tries to catch his breath and laughs: “Kat, when I saw this line from the bus, I thought: why am I doing this? What is there on payments, have you heard? There was, they say, there will be ten thousand. ( In the evening of June 7, the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov will announce that payments of 10 thousand rubles for all residents of the district will begin to arrive from the next day, and payments of 50 thousand rubles will be transferred to residents of settlements where entry is prohibited. - Ed. )

Lay out, ten thousand, and we are without housing! Have you thought about a hundred at least? And so sho, can you rent an apartment with this money or go to the store twice? Choose ".

Katya gets up, shakes herself, says: “They wanted to break through [in Shebekino] yesterday - they did not let them go. They said the "grades" everywhere. Copters fly. There is no connection. We have a neighbor stayed there, at least call him ... I have a dog in the yard. Gopher. So the soul hurts for him. He is a mongrel, but a cross with a dachshund, small, old already. My neighbors left, such bastards - they did not untie the dog. I am worried about my own, he is untied. He ran after us when we left for the car, - Katya tries to blink tears.

“My broilers stayed, chickens, ducks.” The neighbor has nearby - cows, goats. She opened the gate, released them all, so that at least they themselves found the grass somewhere to feed. ”

The baby is fed in the grass, he is six years old, plays with a cat. He presses him tightly, hugs. "Barsik, come here, Barsik, I will hide you, I will go on." Barsik does not mind. He closes his eyes with pleasure.

Tamara comes up to us, a smiling woman in a blue sundress, with her - husband Vasily. Vasily worked as a loader in the new Tavolzhanka, Tamara - at the end of May managed to stand on the labor exchange.

-Another 31st rumor passed that they would be pounding for us. I have already brought the mattress to the basement, and then it began to ... my husband: “No, Tom, run into the car.” I call up ours - at home they burn, but our so far seems to be intact. The looters here ... But we will not go into our, a twisted house. And they will go - there is nothing to carry.

Katya, the mistress of the gopher, says: “I do not mind. Let everyone break, if only Kolya was alive. He and his neighbor sat down to celebrate the Trinity. He said: I will not go, and that’s it. The food was brought to him a little last time. You can do without bread there, but without cigarettes ... "

In the sky above us is rattling. I twitch a little reflexively. Everyone throws their heads. You can see the fiery, slowly fading tail of the rocket. “Yes, the air defense is, air defense,” Katya waves his hand. A flock of swallows flies out from somewhere, squeaks, begin to fracturely fly in different directions.

Governor Gladkov will inform that on June 6, the air defense system worked for two air targets: “There were no injured. As a result of the fall of fragments, three cars received damage. ”

"You come home - and you have new owners there!"

The building of the Center for Youth Initiatives has the same long noisy line. There are many grandmothers in handkerchiefs tied under the chin. Near the point of issuing a humanitarian a poster a drawn military man with the inscription "Glory to the forces of the air defense."

“Sash, come here, Sasha,” the woman shouts in a tracksuit, “it’s good here: cereals, sugar, coffee, tea, pasta, you see ... They just asked how many people are, and bring other passports to the computer.”

Two women drag four packages on themselves. It turns out that this is mother and daughter, Maria Ivanovna and Zhenya. Maria Ivanovna - 86. We sit together on a bench.

Zhenya is trying to catch her breath:

“Lord, how can I want to go home. Everywhere, no matter how you pass, all sellers say: this is with Shebekino. Is it written on me or what? "

The blonde Alena approaches us from behind, her granddaughter of two -year -old Alice runs next to her. "Did you ask for powders or did they give you yourself?" She asks for women.

“The first days, my mother will not let me lie, I cried day and night,” Zhenya whispers, “day and night.”

“Yes, it cries and cries,” says Maria Ivanovna. - I say: why are you crying?

Alena is responsible for Zhenya: “Yes, it’s sorry for everything, Eshkin cat! How much we lived there. ”

Maria Ivanovna says: “And everything was inverted for me. Nothing sorry. Thank God they themselves are alive. And I forgot to think. The fridge of meat is full - well, that's all. Well, his mother is there. ”

Alena confirms: “Well, his mother is there. It’s scary that the looters do not climb ... "

- Our Larisa works there, called, said: they break the windows - they go in. I don't feel sorry. I only stayed with me - let them eat. But well, they would have come to eat, otherwise everyone will be amazed ...

“Oh, I’ll tell you a joke now,” Alena begins. - We have a grandmother in a large settlement, now we only sit there every summer, and no one lives in the house. My mother is from there too. Then she tells me: “Oh, how is my garden there? Beetles will eat all the potatoes. ” Brother took her there, they arrived, look - and there people live. Two cars are standing, two families live. We were all in shock. Do you imagine? I generally ohnoral!

These are Shebekins. They say: "You just do not drive us out, we will fill you here, we will do everything." Mother says: “Well, let them stay, there are potatoes in the basement, let them eat.”

And the mother’s sister says that they are standing in the settlement near the river tent. People live there. Well, can you imagine? You come home - and you have new owners there! A whole joke, an anecdote!

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June 8. I put an alarm of six to add the text in the morning. As a result, at five in the morning I woke up explosions in the sky. I realized through my sleep that the air defense works. How quickly you get used to it. Blinking twice. And after a second it rumbled so that the ceiling and walls shook. The phone fell from the shelf. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov soon said that the air defense system for two air targets worked over Belgorod. Local telegram channels published the consequences of explosions in the sky above the working village of reasonable near Belgorod: a power line was torn there and a pair of windows.