I understood that it is impossible to throw children at the airport, they have no place to disappear. They were tired because some for 2 weeks were there. When all the time shoot, you normally don't sleep, you don't eat - you don't live, and it very much exhausts. In 4-5 days of such marathon of people starts weakening. And at separ tactics was also aimed at it: during a truce they became stronger even not round us, and along that road on which we go to cut off it.

I was born in Poltava, and grew up in the north of Russia. The father at me the military therefore lived in different places: Magadan, Kamchatka, Chukotka. When Ukraine separated, we arrived back. Here I graduated from school, the institute. I did military service, and then half a year under the contract I was the peacekeeper in Iraq. Recently I lived in Kiev, I worked as the financier. Then in my life there was a Maidan and when anti-terrorist operation began, I descended few times in a military registration and enlistment office, waited will call so far. At first offered not that I wanted, and then when learned that there is a set to the 95th crew, was issued to them. Then created a separate 90th battalion, and we were its part, I - as the shooter. 

Took away me at the end of summer. After preparation, in November sent to anti-terrorist operation. I visited the Donetsk airport twice: to a truce and when the airport was blown up. During a truce Russians strengthened the positions is strong and sensible. Our party too should have been engaged in it. Soldiers did that could, but it was necessary to become stronger globally, especially in respect of engineering training. And now it should be conducted constantly, despite winter.

The first time arrived to the airport how they took the old terminal. And the second before it was blown up completely. And I consider that everything who got to these extreme trips, can be considered a priori as real men because practically everyone understood that chances to survive there even less, than 50 on 50.

This trip - check of human qualities and the principles. For me it too was so. Probably, everyone for himself chose some idea or the purpose for the sake of what goes. I understood that it is impossible to throw children there, they have no place to disappear. They were tired because some for 2 weeks were there. When all the time shoot, you normally don't sleep, you don't eat - you don't live, and it very much exhausts. In 4-5 days of such marathon, the person starts weakening. And at separ tactics was also aimed at it, during a truce they became stronger even us not around, and along that road on which we go, for this purpose, to cut off its.

The second time we arrived in the night of the 16th for January 17th. Broke there tensely, by two cars. One of our cars near the terminal was blown up by separa. It is a pity the driver, he lit up and in spite of the fact that we pulled out it, didn't survive. We came around, but anybody couldn't leave from there. Opportunity to bring wounded appeared later, it is good that command found ways it to make. By the time of when we arrived, there was only one killed, that is, ours kept normally. We replaced people on posts, and people have slightly a rest, ate, have a sleep, returned to a tone. At children the mood was lightened also the general fighting spirit. Several times a day we were poisoned with tear gas. If you not on a post and you it isn't necessary to look all the time, mucous you close a balaclava or gloves - it is possible to bear.
We more or less strengthened positions. Cleaned machine guns, grenade launchers, were ready to serious defense, but not that the 19th they will blow up the center of the airport. The hole was big, through, from the 5th floor on the cellar. Somewhere meters 50 in the diameter. They something serious bakhnut. I think that it something from above arrived, some rocket because it couldn't punch overlapping of five floors if bakhnut from the cellar.
When jerked, I slept. There passed such blast wave that I on a floor was stretched meter on three and filled up with garbage. Broke our strengthenings rather strongly, but got out of blockages normally. After explosion waited for storm, but separa calmed down, and we constructed barricades of fragments. There the guy was young - the physician, Zinych Igor, known as the Loony. It the first oriented what to do. I took responsibility to order, I started boys collecting, shouting that we prepare for defense. I consider that it is worthy the hero's ranks. It from those who there was practically afraid of nothing. Igor was fatally wounded in time of the second explosion, to it broke a back.
After the first explosion of wounded was a little, one of them died. I very well knew it, signal Musya, good was the person. Too I arrived boys to rescue.
Then very much water wasn't enough for us. It is good that there was a rain - at first that flew on walls was collected in kettles and boiled, and then already didn't even boil. When water ended - ice was put to use.

The second explosion, the 20th, happened, that separa got into cellars and mined them. The floor under us left down. We failed and from above too decently fell down. To hide after that explosion already especially there was no place.

From under blockages we got not all, but everyone who gave a vote, pulled out precisely. Pulled out them before dark, children shone with small lamps, dug while there were forces. From those who was got, some were with slight injuries, some - with very heavy. There still were children, but physically it was impossible to find them.

I by that moment already had a wound in a foot of two-day prescription which got the 17th, unloading a unit of fire from the car which arrived for wounded. The bone wasn't touched, and the bullet was got already in Selidovo. Therefore I extended boys from above a rope, and other children dug out. From heavy wounded more than a half till the morning didn't live.

It was difficult to keep the territory, but the part of people was still ready to defend. The airport became simply a symbol. And it not in reproach to our command, I think, they not so strongly would hold this airport if so didn't raspiarit it and didn't make a flag and an example of heroism. Therefore with such frenzy Russians wanted to fill up this symbol. Now the cyborg is a symbol of the airport, and actually, such cyborgs full around. Than them now both under Debaltseve, and in Mariupol and in the Village Lugansk many times it is more.

It is necessary to go to hot spots, to remove heroes and to tell people of their history, but not one seamy side to show and ache as everything is bad. On these people with rifles now everything keeps. We within the country lose information war, as well as in Europe. And so far it so, will be very difficult for us and in land war. Therefore journalists have to realize all responsibility for information which they put in people.

After explosion we had no communication, and it is rather big problem. Part of fighters broke through through a strip to ask the help for the others. And to us broke at night three cars of MTLB to take away wounded and the dead, to update a unit of fire and water, but it wasn't succeeded to make it to them. Cars arrived from that party where filled up an exit. While turned, two of them a separa burned.
When began to dawn, I decided to go to ours and to tell where and how to approach and what it is unambiguously necessary to go because there were people. We decided to leave together with the Falcon the 80th. It had a wound in a foot and a shoulder. Still I asked the friend, Igork, to help us to reach. But he all night long sat with wounded and didn't want them to leave. Physicians then weren't any more. Igor - the guy kind very much. It remained and then him took prisoner. I rather normally knew the district because studied the card. There was very dense fog and it was visible us especially not though we went on a strip which was exposed to fire.

We went hour two when shot at us: laid down and waited. The most difficult for me was to force itself to rise and go further. When left to the, picked up us and brought at once to a first-aid post. I in detail told everything to our commander, in particular, where to approach, and for our children sent one more column, but was late because all were taken away in captivity. When I learned, how many walking got there, very much regretted that I didn't bring together all of them and didn't force to pull "three-hundredth". I simply thought that it will be more difficult to get out, but chances to leave it were, though, of course, not for all. I understood that "three-hundredth", especially critical, will shout from pain, but it was possible to wrap, pull them in sleeping bags on snow. Even to creep some site. But there was one more nuance: there were also dead who needed to be buried.

Sometimes there is a strong wish to forget how people die. As shout. But here faces of many with whom I was there, want to be remembered well. And the heaviest for me is when you can make nothing, anything to help.

Boys still in captivity. Separa promised to give "two-hundredth", but too don't give. They sorted these blockages next day. Took out ammunition. It is quite real that could dig out the remained people.

I don't regret that we went to the airport. As could - children were helped. I very much want that didn't forget real heroes. Except Igor Zinycha (Loony) from Tetiyev I want to mention two more people who as I consider, are worthy ranks of the hero of this war. They now are considered as missing persons. This is Zubkov Ivan from Derazhni (the city in Hmelnitsky area), and Buzenko Vladimir from Ivano-Frankovsk, the signal Italian. Any who was there, will confirm that it is those people about whom it is necessary to write in textbooks on stories.

I saw war in Iraq and here, and I understand for a long time, something that it seems problems in life, actually it appears the two in the first class, in comparison with what it is possible to face in the war. The system of coordinates and values turns over. War is a cleaning. Then you come back and you want banal, but the most important things: quiet life which so you don't appreciate when it is. I hope that my small child will live life without war.

I very much want to tell all who goes to be at war that didn't forget that war is a work. Heavy, as a rule. There it is necessary to drag something, to load something, to dig something, somewhere to go or run, somewhere to sit and to wait for something, and it is necessary to shoot not enough time. And if you normally work, over time you reach tranquillity and confidence. And if you don't shlangut and you follow rules, chances to die much less. On such things it is necessary to be adjusted and not to be afraid.

As for me, I took the oath and I plan to return for war after recovery.

When I am asked, for what you are at war, I give an example as in Konstantinovka, and it is 60 km from Donetsk, met many people, which for us, for Ukraine. I thought, I go there, to separatists, and there you come into cafe - you treat. You come to a market - sell you products at purchase price. The youth draws flags on walls. Both men, and women approach and shake a hand. And all ask when it everything ends and whether we throw them. And you will look at volunteers - and too you understand that not for nothing you are at war; people what they - the presents, good. 2 girls somehow came to hospital, brought us something, and we say that we already only have enough. Then we to you will sing, they speak to us. Also start singing so sincerely, in Ukrainian, in two voices. At us even tears acted. So, is for what to be at war! And everything who consider that they is far from it, let it appreciate. Everything is rather relative: in the Crimea and the Luhansk region too earlier nobody could think that to them such will happen. In Kiev the life: people go to work, have a good time, and it everything costs something to someone - health, a foot, life and so on.

It is important that many people for themselves understood that in the country there is a war, and I think that its best end will come just when most of people are ready to its worst end. It isn't necessary to blame someone, it is necessary to be the most ready. And most though to do something for the small victories to achieve one big.

Text and photo: Vika Yasinskaya, Censor.NET

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