“There were huge tanks. Snipers were sitting on them. Six people each. All of them were armed. There were both Chechens and Buryats”

“It burned down in front of my eyes”. Tamara Kononenko is talking about her house. It was ruthlessly destroyed by the russians in the first days of the war. They dropped a bomb on it. She had left the house a few days before, so it was a miracle she survived. She lived under fire, at the point of enemy tanks. This is a first-hand account of the first days of the war in Chernihiv region.