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| Residential areas of Donetsk covered with 'Grads:' what is happening in the city now |
| 2023-02-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Steshin [KP] At least a dozen missiles were fired at the Kievsky district. They hit residential areas. “Something hasn’t been shelled at us for a long time,” my fellow countrymen told me last week and they always crossed themselves or spit over their left shoulders. They flew, of course, to the Petrovsky district, but they always fly there - part of the landscape, everyday life. And so, there is nowhere to run from Donetsk. I myself live in a house with an arrival, consoling myself with the postulate of "a second projectile in one funnel." Behind my wall are two blond bareheads of five and six years old, Artem and Kolya. We met. Helped them carry the scooter. It seems that this was their only walk in the past month. Underage neighbors walk on their heads all day, I take it stoically, with a kind smile - now you can’t let children out on the streets. All the entrances in the city are wide open - the order of the authorities, so that passers-by could, if something happens, jump in and take refuge in the walls of the house. You never know. It's impossible to guess. In the morning I went for drinking water. Drinkable only on the label. Kind people collect it somewhere, run it through filters and generously flavor it with an army chlorine-based water disinfectant. They stick labels of well-known "water" brands and put them up for sale in stores for 65-90 rubles. From this water from the kettle it smells like from a cholera hut - bleach and mild rot, but I'm used to it. And I lost my mind. He threw five-liter cans into the apartment and for some reason thought: “It’s been a long time since they hit Donetsk.” I didn’t cross myself - my hands were busy, a second - and arrivals began. I just thought: “I jinxed you, you fool,” and began to get ready: a bottle of water, remove the video camera from the charger and the modem, documents ... everything else is in the car. According to the first data, at least a dozen missiles were fired at the Kievsky district. It's in residential areas. Not expecting to cover any target. They hit from the maximum distance, and the “grads” fell like a fan with a spread of up to 500 meters. The house at 136 Artem Street got the most damage. To understand, this street is the main horizontal of the city, like Nevsky Prospekt. Where the Kyiv district begins, there is no longer a living place left on the houses. This time, the rocket hit the roof, collapsing the top two floors and a flight of stairs. The downcast man filmed the remains of his apartment on his phone. On the one hand, he was lucky, on the other hand - where to live now? Neighbors crowding the yard added drama to the bombardment. Hair on end: a family remained on the upper floors under the rubble. People, fleeing endless arrivals, moved from the Petrovsky district, rented an apartment ... How to explain this coincidence? Only the density of artillery fire. Because it flew into the roofs of neighboring houses, and into the skyscrapers of the quarter, located a little further, a kilometer away. Fragments, in a tight bunch, pierced the window of a children's cafe - small chairs remained standing at the same tables. The cafe was closed. And who now goes to cafes with children? The city is empty. The last point of arrivals, of those that I found, is a gas station. Miraculously, they managed to put it out. An elderly explosives engineer, examining the already safe tail from the “hail”, noticed that the ammunition was possibly of Polish production. Although, this does not mean anything, the characteristics are similar to Soviet or Russian rockets. An hour had not passed after the shelling, but a truck drove into the gas station. We began to unload plywood panels - to close the broken glass. Most of the posts at the gas station have survived, I won’t be surprised if the gas station starts working tomorrow. Why did they shell Donetsk without aiming anywhere, in squares? Policy. Dill realized back in November that they were now shelling not “separators”, but Russia. They are happy to know this. We have to wait and be patient. Yesterday, the mayor of Slavyansk with a good surname Lyakh (obviously chosen on purpose) urged residents to leave the city. Let's take Slavyansk - we will return the water to Donetsk and the shelling will end. There are no other options. |
| Posted by:badanov |