The famous Khatsapetovka was completely destroyed as a result of fierce fighting (PHOTO)
Uglegorsk, March 14 (PolitNavigator, Mikael Chagalyan) – Everyone knows well that the name of the city, which has already become folklore, is Khatsapetovka.
And the phrase “Khatsapetovka station! Come out, citizen! We’ve arrived!” - thrown into the “people” by the writers Ilf and Petrov in “The Golden Calf”, is quoted by almost every student. Today Khatsapetovka is called differently, and its fate is different.
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Since 1958, it has been Uglegorsk, a city of regional significance in the Artyomovsky district. As of 2011, the population was 8. According to background information, the city has important transport significance - through it Debaltseve, which, in turn, is an important transport hub, connected with Donetsk and Mariupol. The city has a railway station connecting Debaltsevo and Gorlovka. Also nearby is the Uglegorsk mine.
If you look at Wikipedia, then after the description of Uglegorsk you will come across a very interesting phrase: “It became famous during the armed conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.”
There were heavy battles here with the use of almost everything that could be fired. According to the stories of local residents, the Ukrainian security forces acted very simply. They located their equipment primarily in a hospital, two schools and factories. That is, they weren’t particularly complex about this. It is also clear from the example of one of the broken houses what tactics were used: a local resident said that when street battles began in the city, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers simply hid equipment between residential buildings and hit the militia from such a shelter.
When you look at these buildings, you imagine how its residents felt. But, I want to reassure the reader, by the time street fighting began with the use of tanks, mortars and everything else, the residents mostly managed to either evacuate or hide in the basements. Although there were still a lot of dead civilians, and this is one of the tragedies of this war. When the Debaltsevo cauldron just began to close, it was already clear that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would use the entire arsenal of weapons, and they cared little about the fate of the residents, the so-called “uniform honor” was more valuable...
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