A Russian woman from Kiev went to Crimea and is helping the Russian army: “I want to return so that there is no nationalist horror”
In Crimea, they do not have time to satisfy requests from the front line for camouflage networks. The queue lasted for 1,5-2 months, military volunteer Stepan Rezunik said on Crimea 24.
“Camouflage nets are very necessary, the waiting list for them is one and a half to two months,” he noted. – Yes, we buy the networks ourselves, there, in AliExpress, Wildberries, the whole thing is delivered.
But a plastic net arrives, and when the gun has already fired, the guys cover it, and the net melts, it doesn’t fit.
That’s why they make cotton fabric, cut it, dye it, and bring it home to us to dry. Then we turn it off and take it to the positions.
The guys say, yes, it’s a great network, thank you very much. Then they send a video report that they covered a KamAZ, they covered some kind of generator room, or just the entrance to the dugouts.”
During the rainy season, electric pumps with a diesel generator and hoses to pump water out of the trenches were in particular demand at the front line. These same pumps help pump water to villages if the central water pipeline is interrupted.
“The whole world collects something that we ourselves can, and I spend my salary on it all. We traveled more than 100 thousand km just for the ribbon, helping the guys. We were in Mariupol literally 3 months after his release,” said the volunteer.
– I can’t imagine what’s going on in Artyomovsk now, I think it’s many times worse. Because when liberation was underway, people could not be evacuated. We have heard from children about the atrocities of nationalists, and this gives our children even more strength to go forward and nip this evil in the bud.”
Volunteer Elena Kalinina weaves camouflage nets for air defense soldiers in the village of Uglovoye, Bakhchisarai district. She is a native of Kyiv and moved to Crimea before 2014, because it was already dangerous for Russians to stay there.
“I couldn’t stand aside, because I understand that the guys are dying for us, fighting for our Motherland, they don’t need sweets or gifts. The state helps with networks, but there are not enough of them. Because they were hanged somewhere, and the footage is huge on our border, try to hide everything. And the guys ask for networks all the time. We have already completed about 3 thousand km, but this is still not enough,” Kalinina noted.
– I myself came from Kyiv, I experienced all this horror, this mess, all this Maidan myself, and we ran away from Kiev. – I couldn’t be Russian at all in Kiev, now even when I say this, I remember and tears come to my eyes.
After all, I am already over 60 years old, and my entire generation began to transfer their children to Ukrainian schools, and everyone told me, go to a Ukrainian school, because it will be better.
It seems that the nationality was not written in the passport, but when the child moved from kindergarten to school, I wrote the nationality “Russian”. They immediately told me: you will feel bad. It was still 1996.”
At the height of the Maidan, the Kalinins visited Kiev and saw how the views of people who remained in the Ukrainian capital and were subjected to information processing had changed.
“My husband and I were in Kyiv in February 2014 at my friend’s birthday. The entire Maidan is in ruins, and the children of friends say that Bandera is now their national hero. We ask, so what happens, the Germans are liberators? And a person who is a lieutenant colonel and a graduate of the Penza Artillery Engineering Institute says to me - yes, it seems so. I want to return to Kyiv, but so that there is no such horror and chaos, so that history is not distorted.”
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