WEBVTT - Made with VTT Creator 00:05.460 --> 00:27.560 position:50% align:middle Grandson... My health, health of all people... This cannot be experienced, cannot be retold... Since February 24, we had reconnaissance in the village; 00:27.560 --> 00:44.968 position:50% align:middle we already knew what, who, and where. Everyone already knew who was a military man and who had weapons. Those were my guys, those were my six guys who were sitting and talking. 00:44.968 --> 00:56.360 position:50% align:middle They knew that those Molotov cocktails would already be prepared near the office. They knew it all. They even knew that those guys were hiding in the basement of the post office, 00:56.360 --> 01:08.396 position:50% align:middle where there was a hardware store, and there was a post office nearby. Those were my Ruslan, Serhii, Yaroslav, Dmytro, and the fifth. 01:08.396 --> 01:22.301 position:50% align:middle They hid in the basement as soon as the tanks arrived, and those orcs simply went into the basement, took their phones, and shot them. 01:22.301 --> 01:38.169 position:50% align:middle Ruslan had a father, Serhii, he said, “Rusik, run to the gardens, into the weeds, don’t hide in the basement. That’s it.” He neglected and said, “You run, we’ll hide in the basement with the guys.” 01:38.169 --> 01:51.334 position:50% align:middle Serhii said that when he was lying there, in the vegetable gardens, the tanks came quickly... Everything was heard, and they started shooting at him, but he ran through the vegetable gardens into the ditches. 01:51.334 --> 02:00.164 position:50% align:middle He got there, came home, because he lived behind the school, at 2:00 a.m., because he couldn’t even cross the highway: heavy fighting had already begun. 02:00.164 --> 02:10.772 position:50% align:middle Larysa received a message from Rusik around 10:00 p.m., “Mom, they’ve already found us.” There was no more contact, around 11:00 p.m., 02:10.772 --> 02:25.205 position:50% align:middle they had already been shot and then the store premises were blown up. They were shot at night, one might say, and in the morning of March 1, the orcs came to my yard. 02:25.205 --> 02:36.429 position:50% align:middle My children were here, in my yard, kept their cattle, they lived nearby, but there was no barn, so they handled their cattle in my yard – three cows, horses, pigs; there was everything in the yard. 02:36.429 --> 02:48.027 position:50% align:middle They arrived on March 1. They didn’t come to milk the cows, it was already past 8:00 a.m., then past 9:00 a.m., then past 11:00 a.m... I called them and asked, “Why don’t you come and handle the cattle?” 02:48.027 --> 02:57.906 position:50% align:middle And they didn’t answer the phone. Then, maybe around 12:30 p.m., they called and said, “Grandma Lida, we can’t come, the orcs kicked us out of the house, we’re sitting in the basement. We can’t come out.” 02:57.906 --> 03:10.263 position:50% align:middle What could I do? Three cows, it was not their fault, just brought forth the young, and I went into the barn. By the time I milked them and finished, it was about 2:00 p.m. There was noise along the road, but I had no business with it, 03:10.263 --> 03:25.595 position:50% align:middle I didn’t know what it was. And then I thought, “I’ll bring some more hay for the barn, I won’t milk the cows at lunch time anymore.” I heard someone talking in my yard. I reached the gate. Dear God! Six people with machine guns! 03:25.595 --> 03:38.704 position:50% align:middle What would you think? I thought that was it... Well, it was ok, they walked around a bit, gate was closed, the house was locked, and they went behind the garage. But I couldn’t see behind the garage, 03:38.704 --> 03:51.330 position:50% align:middle that the tank was standing in my garden, literally ten meters away in the garden. They walked away, I could not see anything. I ducked down and left, and I thought I’d go and hide in the basement. 03:51.330 --> 04:00.337 position:50% align:middle As soon as I came from the barn to the house, I didn’t look that a guy was standing there behind the fence, but he was standing on a tank and said, 04:00.337 --> 04:10.501 position:50% align:middle “Lady, get up, I won’t shoot.” And I fell. He said, “Get up, get up.” I got up, crossed myself, and ran into the basement. 04:10.501 --> 04:25.439 position:50% align:middle It was 4:00 p.m., and then 5:00 p.m., I needed to go to the barn, then the night came. I was praying, the Lord’s Prayer, I thought I needed to try it. I left the basement and went straight to the garden, and there, in my garden, there was... 04:25.439 --> 04:34.276 position:50% align:middle We used to put pulp there, I had straw there, and then boards. They were sitting there. I said, “Guys, hello!” They also said hello, I said, “At least kill me right away so I don’t have to suffer.” 04:34.276 --> 04:44.540 position:50% align:middle And one of them said, “And what do you want?” I said that I need to go to the barn to handle the cattle, and I asked, “Won’t you shoot?” He answered, “I won’t.” I asked, “Really?” He said, “Really.” Well, I left. 04:44.540 --> 04:57.507 position:50% align:middle Well, what can I say... I already went to the barn, got done, it was 8:00 p.m. I went back. Three of them were sitting near my summer kitchen, and three of them walked around the yard. I still remember them – Nazar and Radiy, 04:57.507 --> 05:10.232 position:50% align:middle and those... they never took off their balaclavas, those hats, and those two – Nazar and Radiy, they were friends of mine. Nazar always had a walkie-talkie, there was something rattling on there, 05:10.232 --> 05:20.668 position:50% align:middle I asked, “Who is that, a mistress?” And he said, “No, Grandma Lida, this is reinforcement.” Either 20 tanks, or 80 tanks – they all came like that. I asked, “Is it all there on our farm?” And he said, 05:20.668 --> 05:31.327 position:50% align:middle “This is, Grandma, reinforcement.” So I heard everything: 10 went to Kosynske, 52 went to Basan – I remembered everything. I had Yura 05:31.327 --> 05:39.212 position:50% align:middle a neighbor – I told him, he went on the air. He said, “Grandma Lida is like a scout.” I told him, “You will be old, and you will be interested.” 05:39.212 --> 05:50.942 position:50% align:middle The next day, March 2, I said, “Guys, let me go to the post office, I’ll go and have a look, my grandson and four other guys were shot there.” He said, “Grandma Lida, you can’t go there 05:50.942 --> 06:02.818 position:50% align:middle it’s a deep crater and our bosses are there, you can’t go there.” I begged to go there every day, every day, and I couldn’t go there. I asked, “Guys, why did you shoot them?!” And they said, “This is not us”. 06:02.818 --> 06:14.343 position:50% align:middle I asked, “Well, who?” – “Our commander.” There was someone there, many people were shot there then, including Mykola, and many were shot at the time, 06:14.343 --> 06:24.636 position:50% align:middle because our priest came to me then and said that they were shooting at the time, but I didn’t know who. They were shot then, by whom or what, I didn’t know. 06:24.636 --> 06:33.399 position:50% align:middle What should I have done then? There were six of them, and I was alone. The windows are blocked, and I was so nosy... I pulled back the curtain at night and looked, and in the morning, Nazar told me, 06:33.399 --> 06:42.179 position:50% align:middle “Grandma Lida, don’t look out the windows.” And I asked, “Why do you walk under my windows?” He said, “No, I just walk down the street and I see you, I have a thermal imager, 06:42.179 --> 06:48.205 position:50% align:middle I can see you from 400 meters away.” I said, “Oh my God, no.” He said then, “Don’t pass on information.” I asked, 06:48.205 --> 06:55.877 position:50% align:middle “What are you talking about? Old people are just interested in everything.” He walked along the road with a flashlight. It was clear that something worked. 06:55.877 --> 07:07.208 position:50% align:middle Yura, my neighbor, passed on information, and he was caught, because his house is next to our house, and by the morning, Yura was taken away. Then Alla said, “Aunt Lida, they took Yura!” I asked, “What?!” I came up to my orcs and asked, 07:07.208 --> 07:24.479 position:50% align:middle I said, “Guys, you killed my grandson for no reason, and my neighbor next door, he helps me everything.” They asked, “What do you want?” I said that some of your orcs took him away that morning. What could I do? The child was crying, everything was... 07:24.479 --> 07:42.473 position:50% align:middle They said, “Grandma Lida, don’t cry, everything will be fine.” I said, “Nazar, I’m counting on you.” At 12:00 p.m., Yura was at home and was released. Nazar just came to my yard and said, “You tell your Yura not to pass on information.” 07:42.473 --> 07:59.150 position:50% align:middle The planes were flying around so that the earth was humming, stones were flying like hail, and I had to sit in the barn and handle the cattle. Then on March 14, our Vasyl Turkov agreed with the elder orc to give the go-ahead to bury our guys. 07:59.150 --> 08:10.287 position:50% align:middle They lay in the hole. On March 14, I wouldn’t know, but my daughter-in-law told me, “Grandma Lida, the guys went to the post office to bury those guys.” What about me? I quickly ran after them... 08:10.287 --> 08:23.654 position:50% align:middle They had already pulled out four guys: Dmytro, Yaroslav, Serhii, and Rusik. Vasyl Turkov brought bags, and we stuffed them into the bags. One was without head, others without arms, without legs, 08:23.654 --> 08:35.962 position:50% align:middle and we put them in bags, and the fifth... there was such a block there, we only saw the hand. I also said, “Guys, there’s probably someone else there.” The guys removed that block and lifted it up. 08:35.962 --> 08:50.077 position:50% align:middle Well, there wasn’t a person there, but so... I also threw the film there, and so they scooped it all up and tied it up. That was the fifth person. Well, we didn’t know who it was then, we recognized those four, but I didn’t know the fifth one. 08:50.077 --> 09:03.192 position:50% align:middle They were shot in the basement, and when the post office and the store were blown up, it all exploded, and then they were covered with stones, there was only a crater left there. We picked the fifth one, 09:03.192 --> 09:12.637 position:50% align:middle and Mykola Rykhlyk said, “Lida, look, there’s a wheel, and there’s something else on the wheel.” There was a heart hanging on the wheel and maybe five meters of guts. I said, “Mykola, let’s take it off.” 09:12.637 --> 09:22.585 position:50% align:middle We opened the film and put it there. There were some guys there, there were seven people there. They were digging a hole, Mykola and I put them in bags and put them in the hole and buried them. 09:22.585 --> 09:34.401 position:50% align:middle Then we were given a “green corridor” in the village. I thought I wouldn’t leave. I buried my children, I was shaking. Larysa was no longer in the village, 09:34.401 --> 09:42.764 position:50% align:middle because on March 6 or 7... they ran away at night to Baryshivka. So I stayed in the village. My neighbor said, “Lida, let’s go.” 09:42.764 --> 09:58.388 position:50% align:middle I started a diary and from the first day I started writing for myself. Teachers from a neighboring village came and said that the teachers found out that Grandma Lida was a professional, 09:58.388 --> 10:10.559 position:50% align:middle she simply wrote, and they said, “Give us the notebook.” I said, “Girls, I’m not interested in interviews, I’m just doing it.” I saw the light, 10:10.559 --> 10:14.830 position:50% align:middle I wanted to write what happened every day. How the orcs came to me, how I did this, how I did that, and so I wrote everything in a notebook.