There is no living place anymore

The report of the New-Europe from Chernigov, into the sky above which three Russian Iskander broke. 18 people died, among the wounded - children

Eighteen dead. More than seventy wounded, many heavy were delivered to hospitals. Four children were injured, but, fortunately (well, this is the parental happiness here!), Three of them have already been discharged home - in apartments covered with glass, with balconies, with a muddy blast wave, with interior doors, torn from loops, and so on. Children are recommended for communication with a psychologist. But to whom a psychologist will help if the airy anxiety siren howls day and night, and each of them carries the danger of a new - another - deadly blow?

To help Chernigov, as well as Kharkov, Odessa, Dnipro, Zaporozhey, Nikolaev, Kherson, not to mention the long -suffering Kupyansk, Rosyum, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, only air defense is capable of. “We need at least five or seven Patriot installations,” repeated Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleb at each meeting in Brussels. About seven Patriot installations, which, as they say, are required by life testimonies , at the very beginning of his online sales before the defense ministers of NATO members President Vladimir Zelensky: “You have such systems. Please…"

Since the beginning of the year, Russia has repeatedly strengthened and tightened attacks from the air. Zelensky said:

The Russian military produced almost 1,200 missiles in Ukrainian cities, more than 1,500 Shahdov and 8,500 guided bombs. Not everything managed to knock down. In order to fully protect the country's airspace, 25 Patriot systems or their analogues are necessary.

The third day after the tragedy is the time when her victims are buried. In the district center, Nosovka said goodbye to 25-year-old Alina Mikolaets, a lieutenant of the patrol police. Alina felt badly, headed to the hospital, while driving the car was her young man. The Shard "Iskander" struck the roof of the car. The girl died on the spot, her companion was injured ...

Again, Chernigov demonstrates self -organization. On the third day after the hit with the Iskanders, the rubble are dismantled. Search work is completed. Most of the windows in the surrounding high -rise buildings (28 houses, about 500 apartments were injured), in the Central District Hospital, in the Chernihiv Polytechnic, and in the Zemozhnyansky Hotel are sewn up with pressed wood plates. They managed: on the street, as luck would have it, it was sharply cold. Piles of brick, concrete, slate, torn iron were taken out. The last few wipers mark fragments at the walls.

The rain pounds in mourning carnations and tulips tied to the fence. Closer to the destroyed hotel “Profile” (“trade union”) - only the box remained from the building, everything was burned - the police no longer let in. The territory around a meter after a meter is “palpated” explosives. I hope that the SBU is also looking for the gunner as well.

A single assistance center has been deployed in the City Palace of Culture. Register and interview those who have lost housing or received material damage. Then they are directed to international philanthropists. Representatives of the Norwegian Council for Refugees, Danish Council for Refugees, the French Humanitarian organization Acted, Czech PEOPLE IN NeED and the Rokada charitable Oonian Foundation, at the same time, at the tables. Monetary assistance, legal assistance, grocery sets, a whole range of services.

As you know, the queue for distribution of goods, and even after stress, is not calm. The communicators-volunteers are kindly peering into the faces at the entrance.

A confused look or, on the contrary, an impulsive state is an occasion to accompany a person, especially the elderly, throughout the chain. I spent in a single center, watching the situation, about an hour: not a single conflict.

- About two hundred victims turned. But this is still the beginning, I know from experience - the flow will be more, ”the employee of the department of international relations and investments of the City Council Elena Varavva answers me. Smiles sadly: - In August last year, we did the same. And the atmosphere is similar.

Around noon on August 19, 2023 in the center of Chernigov, above the drama theater, Iskander pulled. A meeting of the military and manufacturers of drones was held in the theater. The rocket hit a couple of minutes after the alarm, as this time. The exhibition participants managed to enter the room, others - to go down to the shelter. And in the square it was crowded: the apple saved, the festive service has just ended in the temples. Seven random passers -by died, more than two hundred wounded, of which fifteen were children ...

The central district hospital is located literally through the road from the epicenter of the current missile strikes. She got a lot from the explosive wave, but still the first saved from the rubble were taken here. In mid-March 2022, Lidia Ivanovna Lavrik, the head of the obstetric and gynecological department, tells me, bombs were falling next to the hospital-the Russian army was eager for Chernihiv. Later, the department was repaired.

“Well, that's all, start first,” Lidia Ivanovna waves his hand and leads me along the corridor of the hospital, showing the wards on both sides. - Thirty patients lay, including postoperative, among other things, a woman in labor with a child. The staff barely managed to bring women to the corridor. God forbid, someone would have hesitated ... Everyone is intact. Patients, whose condition allowed, sent home ... while doctors consult on the phone.

Not a single window in the hospital is left, torn with meat. Glass and fragments of blinds bombarded beds and small operating rooms. The plaster collapsed from the ceiling with huge pieces, cracks crawled along the walls.

In the video, which shows the laurel, it is captured as the department, including its own office, looked on April 17th.

- But literally immediately, employees of the regional council with an inventory for cleaning immediately rushed: “Let's the front of the work!” Volunteers appeared. So embarrassed, I did not even ask who they are, where they come from. By the evening, the windows were closed with film and shields, and, as you see, the order was put. We live on, ”concludes Lidia Ivanovna.

- Most entrepreneurs are mostly Chernihiv volunteers. Leaders of network coffee houses, for example. We met ten years ago, at the beginning of the war, ”Irina Timofeeva, the founder of the phytoaptex (her team helps the local hospital) explains to me). - With a large scale, there was enough week to establish coordination with the regional administration. No one was going to leave anywhere, to run. Our country, our city. We earn money to be able to utter. We have the reserves of the necessary, which may be needed in the case of an emergency, such as adaptive underwear for the wounded. Now it has been very useful.

Ira recalls that she recently watched the film “Twenty Days in Mariupol” by Mstislav Chernov and Eugene Moleshletka in several receptions - breathed breathing:

-In the twenty-second year, Chernigov looked like Mariupol as a twin brother ...

Civil Chernigovites resisted the enemy onslaught with the same desperate dedication with which Azov defended the city of Mary. Russia, Timofeev is sure, remembered and torments the city with rockets constantly. There is no living place anymore.

... In the square near the drama theater, where the workers just overlapped the roof after the August Iskander, a white branded car of the International Medical Corps stopped. Historical buildings around are crippled by explosions, window openings are entirely like a belt, already familiar shields from pressed wood are closed. A gray -haired man, shooting a panoramic video, quietly repeated: “Oh my God ...”, from time to time glancing into the sky. It seems that he did not pray, but simply knew: the gap from the siren of air anxiety to, in fact, the impact of the Iskander - only a few minutes.