Shells of Russian troops destroy the entire infrastructure of Severodonetsk. The Russian occupiers are trying to take control of the city. The public spoke with a local resident who shared his memories of life under constant fire from the Russian army. His story in the material.

Life under fire

“On March 8, 2022, the Russian military had been shelling Severodonetsk for a long time. People were sitting in bomb shelters and basements of their homes. I lived on the fifth floor of the family dormitory in a room I rented from Galina’s pensioners,” said a local resident.

He added that he heard an “arrival” during lunch.

“I dived behind the gas stove. The window in the kitchen fell from the explosion, the wreckage even crashed into the door. And from the window to the door – 15 meters. But at about the same time the glass fell in my room and many of my neighbors,” he said. man.

According to him, the dormitory was put into operation in 1967.

“The old windows were smashed that day, but the double-glazed windows lasted. When I volunteered and distributed food parcels to the people of Severodonetsk, mostly the elderly. I saw things even worse – when the blast ripped out even old wooden window frames. However, the windows were smashed almost all over the city, “said the pensioner.

The man recalls that the next morning, a roommate of the landlady, Volodymyr, hung the empty window of his room with his blanket because it was minus one on the street at the time.

“He hung a window in the kitchen with pieces of cloth – the wind extinguished matches and stove lights. However, soon there was no gas, light or water in the city, which was brought. People were forced to cook for themselves in the yards of their high-rise buildings on fires.” – says a resident of Severodonetsk.

According to the pensioner, Halyna and Volodymyr, who had been in the bomb shelter of the nearest school for several nights before, collected some things and went to one of the district centers in the north of Luhansk region the same day, where Halyna’s mother lived.

“The next day we talked on a mobile phone, and then the connection disappeared – the Russian military entered their city. So I don’t know if they are alive. The school where Halyna and Volodymyr hid was later destroyed by the Russian occupiers,” he added.