{"id":3278,"date":"2023-08-04T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nb4u.co.uk\/?page_id=3278"},"modified":"2023-08-04T23:38:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T23:38:55","slug":"igor-story-later-that-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nb4u.co.uk\/ua\/igor-story-later-that-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Story later that day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Later that day on February 24th<\/h1>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">We woke up a little later in the morning and immediately began to make plans for the future, if you could call it that, which has now shrunk to seconds.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><i>Where to go and what to do?<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">There were several options:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Poland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Country house<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Stay in Kiev<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Do nothing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h5><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Where to wait out the capture of the city, the horrors of war? How long will it last? Unanswered questions.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">After breakfast, I decided to go outside. To see what is being done there, how the city lives. In general, it was a historic day, and if I had been aware of it then, I might have studied the life of Kievans in that terrible time in more detail. But I wasn&#8217;t up to it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">My wife sent me to the grocery store t<\/span><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">o buy food before it is swept off the shelves by other citizens. We thought that we should finally stock up on food, provisions, buy rice, pasta and everything that might be needed to stay at home during a long military siege and even during street battles. <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">It was unclear <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">how long the Ukrainian troops will last? How quickly Russian troops will enter the city? What will Ukrainians do and what will Russians who have entered the city do?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">In the house chat, I read a message from one neighbor:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">\u201cDon&#8217;t be afraid of anything, neighbors. I&#8217;m at my country house 40 kilometers from Kiev. Russian tanks are passing by us<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-lparen\"> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-lparen\">(<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-lparen\"><b>how,<\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b> already?<\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">), the Russians are not touching anyone. They wish us peace and have come to liberate us. Very soon everything will be fine and life will get better.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">The administrator immediately removed her from the chat. Apparently, as a pro-Russian participant, which went against his, at least, patriotic mood.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I really wanted to see what was happening in the city, on the streets of Kiev on the first day of the war? How do the people of Kiev behave? What does the city breathe? What are they talking about?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I left the entrance, walked down the street &#8211; nothing special. Even surprised a little: silence, calm, deserted. It was a little strange, I was expecting some kind of congestion of people, fuss.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>I walked to the nearest supermarket.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">There were already significantly more people here. I wanted to collect groceries, but it was already swept off the shelves. I&#8217;m late. The shelves were almost empty.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I took something from the food, but not much. Got in line at the checkout.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I was surprised by the calmness of the people of Kiev. They stood in line without any excitement, silently. At the same time, the faces, of course, were not cheerful. There was tension, expectation of trouble.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">After paying for my purchases, I went out onto the avenue leading out of the city. There was a long line of cars lined up on it, people were trying to leave the city.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>Two circumstances surprised me.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>Firstly<\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">, <strong>that <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><i>the cars were not packed with things<\/i><\/span><\/strong><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">. It seemed that people decided to go out of town only for a short time to have a good weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>Secondly<\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><i><i><strong style=\"font-style: normal;\">the tranquility of those leaving. <\/strong><\/i>No one tried to avoid a long traffic jam on the sidewalks<\/i><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">, as it could be in case of nervousness, no one cursed anyone on nerves, did not urge. Everyone stood calmly in the traffic jam and waited for the resulting multi-kilometer traffic jam to start moving in its natural motion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/e3Ym6WfJ.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I hung around among onlookers and passers-by who were discussing the latest news. They talked about a jet plane flying over the city, about the possible development of events.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>Nothing was clear.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Then I reached a small shop where I expected to buy products swept off the shelves in the supermarket. There&#8217;s already a queue lined up. I stood at the end of it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">A woman came up and asked:<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-ldquo\"> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\">\u201cDo<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"> you know where you can get a manicure now?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Nervous laughter rolled in turn.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I specifically checked on the way here: is my favorite coffee shop open, where I liked to drink coffee. The door was locked. It was a sign of something extraordinary: the cafe never closed. Or rather, it was closed only for some days, when both owners, husband and wife, together went somewhere to Switzerland to go skiing, for example.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">\u201cIf my favourite cafe is closed, then it&#8217;s really serious,\u201d for some reason flashed through my mind at that moment, as if it was by this sign &#8211; the presence or absence of coffee makers &#8211; that it was possible in this world to judge the seriousness of the impending catastrophe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Having bought third-rate cheap toilet paper and some provisions in the shop<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-lparen\"> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-lparen\">(the<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"> products here were already swept off the shelves before me), I returned home.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>I saw a message from my Moscow friend.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">He recorded a video appeal in which he convinced me that the victory would be for the Ukrainians, Russia would face a cruel defeat.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">It was hard to believe, to be honest, against the background of numerous news about the advance of Russian troops.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I have the impression of the Ukrainian army in the previous years of military operations in the Donbas as a weak military force. I fully assumed that Russian troops would take Kiev in 2-3 days, as they threatened.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">At that time, I was still reading a pro-Russian telegram channel, in which hour after hour, minute by minute, the advance of Russian tanks on the territory of Ukraine was described. The reports indicated that Russian tanks were already somewhere on the way to Kiev. Their rapid progress terrified me.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">In an hour or two we will already be in Kiev, meet us, &#8211; one Russian tankman bravura wrote to that telegram channel.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">There was no reason not to believe his promise. There was zero reliable information<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><strong>I decided to call my university friend in Moscow<\/strong>. He began to convince me again, that Russia&#8217;s military expansion makes no sense from the point of view of resources &#8211; it&#8217;s stupid from the very beginning and is doomed to failure.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">&#8220;<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><i>Ukraine will win, you&#8217;ll see<\/i><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">,&#8221; he assured me.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Even before the start of the war, he and I often and a lot discussed the possible consequences of the invasion and the development of hostilities. He convinced me every time, that any variant of Russia&#8217;s attack on Ukraine threatens Russia with defeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">\u201cRussia will not be able to defeat Ukraine. She simply does not have the resources for this,\u201d he told me.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I don&#8217;t know if he reached such a conclusion himself, or heard enough of such famous military experts like Arestovich and other military analysts, but then I heard this opinion many times already from the mouths of Ukrainian speakers, military specialists.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">By the way, many of my Moscow acquaintances, as they later told me, on the first day of the war were very frightened by the Russian invasion that had occurred and were waiting from hour to hour for a nuclear strike from the West.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">And then, in the first days of the war, they ran to psychotherapists, feeling anxiety attacks for their lives, experienced panic attacks,<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-ldquo\"> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\"><b><i>while<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b><i> Ukrainians were hiding in bomb shelters,<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">\u201d one of my Russian acquaintances confessed to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><strong>I expected my friends from Russia would start calling me<\/strong> in the morning. <strong>But,<\/strong> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>the phone was silent<\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">. There were no calls from them, no messages in messenger. Silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I didn&#8217;t understand their behavior. But I myself did not call them first &#8211;<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-ldquo\"> <\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\">\u201cnot<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"> by status\u201d a person who found himself in a country that was attacked by another country, to call those whose country was attacked.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>They&#8217;ll call later, I thought.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Going into the kitchen, I looked out the window. Outside the window everything was the same as usual: trees, houses, a kindergarten opposite, a TV tower in the distance. Everything is the same as always, but the war.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>My heart sank.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I was most afraid that the Russians would launch a massive rocket attack, and one of them would fly into our window. Or, even worse, they will launch a single rocket, and it will land directly individually in the window of my kitchen. I was very afraid of this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I decided to fill the kettle with water, but it turned out that the <strong>water was turned off<\/strong>. There was no water in the faucet.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>I was more worried about Russian missiles.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><strong>I propose to open our basement and use it as a bomb shelter<\/strong>, &#8211; I wrote in the house chat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">It was strange to write this. It was strange to discuss this. A bomb shelter? Are you serious? Yes, I&#8217;m serious. Despite the idiocy of the Russians starting the war, we were already living in the war. And the sky was a threat to us, civilians.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"ace-all-bold-hthree\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>The neighbors supported the idea.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Only it turned out that the key to the basement of our house is with a janitor who lives in another part of the city and does not answer calls.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">I will open it, &#8211; my neighbor Alexey, a friend in raising children, wrote in the chat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">He went down to the yard with the Bulgarian, sawed down the lock and in 15 minutes wrote to the chat:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul class=\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">The basement is open.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Rockets? Airstrikes? A bomb shelter? In the 21st century? You&#8217;re crazy, my friend!!!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"><b>But no one laughed,<\/b><\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\"> on the contrary, the question of using the basement as a bomb shelter was raised later throughout the day by many neighbours.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">However, it turned out that the basement of our house was not suitable as a bomb shelter: it stank strongly from broken sewer pipes, it was stuffy, it was impossible to stay for any time and, moreover, it was impossible to get out of it in case of a house collapse &#8211; there was no second exit from it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Consequently, our basement could not be a refuge during the minutes of missile strikes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">It turned out that in the next house there is a real bomb shelter, occupied in peacetime under a cafe. It provided free entry to all those suffering, but it quickly turned out that there was not enough space there, there would not be enough for everyone.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\">Therefore, the issue of the bomb shelter remained open and in a short time became very popular among Kiev residents.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- {\"type\":\"layout\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"section\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"style\":\"default\",\"title_breakpoint\":\"xl\",\"title_position\":\"top-left\",\"title_rotation\":\"left\",\"vertical_align\":\"middle\",\"width\":\"default\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"row\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"media_overlay_gradient\":\"\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"headline\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"Later that day on February 24th\",\"title_color\":\"secondary\",\"title_element\":\"h1\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">We woke up a little later in the morning and immediately began to make plans for the future, if you could call it that, which has now shrunk to seconds.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><i>Where to go and what to do?<\\\/i><\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">There were several options:\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Poland<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Country house<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Stay in Kiev<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Do nothing<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<h5><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Where to wait out the capture of the city, the horrors of war? How long will it last? Unanswered questions.<\\\/span><\\\/h5>\\n<\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">After breakfast, I decided to go outside. To see what is being done there, how the city lives. In general, it was a historic day, and if I had been aware of it then, I might have studied the life of Kievans in that terrible time in more detail. But I wasn't up to it.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\"ace-all-bold-hthree\\\"><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">My wife sent me to the grocery store t<\\\/span><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">o buy food before it is swept off the shelves by other citizens. We thought that we should finally stock up on food, provisions, buy rice, pasta and everything that might be needed to stay at home during a long military siege and even during street battles. <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">It was unclear <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">how long the Ukrainian troops will last? How quickly Russian troops will enter the city? What will Ukrainians do and what will Russians who have entered the city do?<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">In the house chat, I read a message from one neighbor:\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">\\u201cDon't be afraid of anything, neighbors. I'm at my country house 40 kilometers from Kiev. Russian tanks are passing by us<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-lparen\\\"> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-lparen\\\">(<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-lparen\\\"><b>how,<\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b> already?<\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">), the Russians are not touching anyone. They wish us peace and have come to liberate us. Very soon everything will be fine and life will get better.\\u201d<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\\n\n\n<p><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">The administrator immediately removed her from the chat. Apparently, as a pro-Russian participant, which went against his, at least, patriotic mood.<\\\/span><\\\/p>\\n<\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I really wanted to see what was happening in the city, on the streets of Kiev on the first day of the war? How do the people of Kiev behave? What does the city breathe? What are they talking about?<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I left the entrance, walked down the street - nothing special. Even surprised a little: silence, calm, deserted. It was a little strange, I was expecting some kind of congestion of people, fuss.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\"ace-all-bold-hthree\\\"><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>I walked to the nearest supermarket.\\u00a0<\\\/b><\\\/span><\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">There were already significantly more people here. I wanted to collect groceries, but it was already swept off the shelves. I'm late. The shelves were almost empty.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I took something from the food, but not much. Got in line at the checkout.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I was surprised by the calmness of the people of Kiev. They stood in line without any excitement, silently. At the same time, the faces, of course, were not cheerful. There was tension, expectation of trouble.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">After paying for my purchases, I went out onto the avenue leading out of the city. There was a long line of cars lined up on it, people were trying to leave the city.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\"ace-all-bold-hthree\\\"><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>Two circumstances surprised me.\\u00a0<\\\/b><\\\/span><\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>Firstly<\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">, <strong>that <\\\/strong><\\\/span><strong><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><i>the cars were not packed with things<\\\/i><\\\/span><\\\/strong><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">. It seemed that people decided to go out of town only for a short time to have a good weekend.\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>Secondly<\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><i><i><strong style=\\\"font-style: normal;\\\">the tranquility of those leaving. <\\\/strong><\\\/i>No one tried to avoid a long traffic jam on the sidewalks<\\\/i><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">, as it could be in case of nervousness, no one cursed anyone on nerves, did not urge. Everyone stood calmly in the traffic jam and waited for the resulting multi-kilometer traffic jam to start moving in its natural motion.<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"image\",\"props\":{\"image\":\"wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/e3Ym6WfJ.png\",\"image_svg_color\":\"emphasis\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I hung around among onlookers and passers-by who were discussing the latest news. They talked about a jet plane flying over the city, about the possible development of events.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\"ace-all-bold-hthree\\\"><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>Nothing was clear.<\\\/b><\\\/span><\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Then I reached a small shop where I expected to buy products swept off the shelves in the supermarket. There's already a queue lined up. I stood at the end of it.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">A woman came up and asked:<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-ldquo\\\"> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\\\">\\u201cDo<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"> you know where you can get a manicure now?\\u201d<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\\n<\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Nervous laughter rolled in turn.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I specifically checked on the way here: is my favorite coffee shop open, where I liked to drink coffee. The door was locked. It was a sign of something extraordinary: the cafe never closed. Or rather, it was closed only for some days, when both owners, husband and wife, together went somewhere to Switzerland to go skiing, for example.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">\\u201cIf my favourite cafe is closed, then it's really serious,\\u201d for some reason flashed through my mind at that moment, as if it was by this sign - the presence or absence of coffee makers - that it was possible in this world to judge the seriousness of the impending catastrophe.<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\\n<\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Having bought third-rate cheap toilet paper and some provisions in the shop<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-lparen\\\"> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-lparen\\\">(the<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"> products here were already swept off the shelves before me), I returned home.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\"ace-all-bold-hthree\\\"><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>I saw a message from my Moscow friend.\\u00a0<\\\/b><\\\/span><\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">He recorded a video appeal in which he convinced me that the victory would be for the Ukrainians, Russia would face a cruel defeat.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">It was hard to believe, to be honest, against the background of numerous news about the advance of Russian troops.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I have the impression of the Ukrainian army in the previous years of military operations in the Donbas as a weak military force. I fully assumed that Russian troops would take Kiev in 2-3 days, as they threatened.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">At that time, I was still reading a pro-Russian telegram channel, in which hour after hour, minute by minute, the advance of Russian tanks on the territory of Ukraine was described. The reports indicated that Russian tanks were already somewhere on the way to Kiev. Their rapid progress terrified me.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">In an hour or two we will already be in Kiev, meet us, - one Russian tankman bravura wrote to that telegram channel.<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">There was no reason not to believe his promise. There was zero reliable information<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><strong>I decided to call my university friend in Moscow<\\\/strong>. He began to convince me again, that Russia's military expansion makes no sense from the point of view of resources - it's stupid from the very beginning and is doomed to failure.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">\\\"<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><i>Ukraine will win, you'll see<\\\/i><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">,\\\" he assured me.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Even before the start of the war, he and I often and a lot discussed the possible consequences of the invasion and the development of hostilities. He convinced me every time, that any variant of Russia's attack on Ukraine threatens Russia with defeat.\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">\\u201cRussia will not be able to defeat Ukraine. She simply does not have the resources for this,\\u201d he told me.<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\\n<\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I don't know if he reached such a conclusion himself, or heard enough of such famous military experts like Arestovich and other military analysts, but then I heard this opinion many times already from the mouths of Ukrainian speakers, military specialists.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<ul class=\\\"listtype-quote listindent1 list-quote1\\\">\\n\n\n<li><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">By the way, many of my Moscow acquaintances, as they later told me, on the first day of the war were very frightened by the Russian invasion that had occurred and were waiting from hour to hour for a nuclear strike from the West.\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/li>\\n<\\\/ul>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">And then, in the first days of the war, they ran to psychotherapists, feeling anxiety attacks for their lives, experienced panic attacks,<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-ldquo\\\"> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\\\">\\u201c<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\\\"><b><i>while<\\\/i><\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b><i> Ukrainians were hiding in bomb shelters,<\\\/i><\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">\\u201d one of my Russian acquaintances confessed to me.\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n<\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div>\\n\n\n<p><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><strong>I expected my friends from Russia would start calling me<\\\/strong> in the morning. <strong>But,<\\\/strong> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>the phone was silent<\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">. There were no calls from them, no messages in messenger. Silence.<\\\/span><\\\/p>\\n<\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">I didn't understand their behavior. But I myself did not call them first -<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z s-ldquo\\\"> <\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z h-ldquo\\\">\\u201cnot<\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"> by status\\u201d a person who found himself in a country that was attacked by another country, to call those whose country was attacked.\\u00a0<\\\/span><\\\/div>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<p><span class=\\\"ace-all-bold-hthree\\\"><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>They'll call later, I thought.<\\\/b><\\\/span><\\\/span><\\\/p>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Going into the kitchen, I looked out the window. 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You're crazy, my friend!!!<\\\/span><\\\/em><\\\/p>\",\"margin\":\"default\",\"text_color\":\"secondary\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"><b>But no one laughed,<\\\/b><\\\/span><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\"> on the contrary, the question of using the basement as a bomb shelter was raised later throughout the day by many neighbours.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">However, it turned out that the basement of our house was not suitable as a bomb shelter: it stank strongly from broken sewer pipes, it was stuffy, it was impossible to stay for any time and, moreover, it was impossible to get out of it in case of a house collapse - there was no second exit from it.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">Consequently, our basement could not be a refuge during the minutes of missile strikes.<\\\/span><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><\\\/div>\\n\n\n<div><span class=\\\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z84z5u1z70z7z83zurz67zz85zeez87zz89zz69z1nh2nueqped94z65z\\\">It turned out that in the next house there is a real bomb shelter, occupied in peacetime under a cafe. 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