you understand that not you, but your son, means that this is my fate, this is my parental burden, this has traditionally happened as soon as a serviceman from the 95th brigade dies, they try to invite me and i sing , then you perform as a priest, and here you as a father, a particularly impressive moment, so we made it now the handing over of the flag - this is what i will tell you, the feeling is not to convey, just do not convey, when you are handed the flag, your acquaintance approaches you, who did you say hello to him yesterday on the territory of the brigade, who

knows you and you know him, and he says what is his name the president, you are handed the flag of sazaev, your son today, when you mention roma what comes to your mind first is his look, i don't know , maybe it's the impression from the photo that hangs in the cemetery but here i really am, i come there, i put flowers, i look at his eyes, i feel calmer he is getting easier and easier in this regard. he was very restrained, he never showed his emotions there somewhere, somehow, because of this openly no, he laughed, he laughed at himself. he was quite such a joyful person, but he

he was so gold, focused, so serious, well, this calms me down, and this is the first thing for me, go away from now on, it seems that right now, somewhere, he will call, yes, you can, my son was like this in his childhood, he was exactly serious, he even sat on the potty seriously, that's how he is, well he's got such a gene it's from his wife it's from his wife let us have a rest this crowbar stop go up to the eighth floor go up on foot go up to the eighth floor to ask mom's permission if he can give this boy a pass who pushed him, this is his, this is his life

credo. do you remember how you met him? it was on september 1, 1995, in the 10th grade. accordingly, we had two new people. among them was roman. he was so collected in suits , hair, was always dyed because probably with a military family, he always looked like a needle , functional, accurate, a bit military, you could tell when you saw his first works and heard then that they were already more professional, they were already from kyiv, it goes without saying that after kyiv pride pride pride pride of this were works portraits of doctors all that in the 2000s at the beginning

probably later he took pictures of names on hikes or at home some moments and the last thing he already offered to us with friends was that he wanted to take pictures of the parents of some chubby parents take portraits of parents and we have parents well, unfortunately, i didn't have time and if you had to describe my son in one word, what word would it be, devoted, he was very devoted to everything regarding work, relationships, everything, when my father died, i chastised myself very much for what i owed him called and i was very, very worried about this. what do you think you didn't have time to do or say to your

son? i didn't have time to ask him for forgiveness for my words alone . i made a very serious remark to him. it seems to me that he was a little offended by me. after that, we didn't communicate with him anymore. after that, he already came. it was literally, we were with him, yes. two days later, he passed the military enlistment office. and he brought this, this, this still hurts. no soul.

if you had the opportunity to meet him for a short time last, so that you could tell him that i already said that there is an affair, that i love and respect you very much and that you are my very best friend, because that's how it is. yes, i think briefly. mr. vasily, the priest, you know that god teaches forgiveness. will you ever be able to forgive the enemy who came to our land and killed your person, he is forgiven in the wrong sense, there is no forgiveness for them and there will be none from me or from anyone, but forgiveness is not in the sense that you meant, you understand, because satan

it is impossible to forgive, they are not people, they are not people, because people do not act like that roman solonenko, a wonderful son, a loyal comrade, a phlogiston and a defender of his country who died for it, but his memory will remain forever, including thanks to his photos, you were a project of heroes about fate those who laid down their lives, health and peace for the sake of the salvation of others, we will meet soon. soon there will be a new day and new heroes, and so we will rebuild to victory.

took the hannibal oath to write a hundred books in ukrainian after 30 years, he significantly exceeded his promise, not only described the history of ukraine, proclaimed its independence, independence that we will always defend, the state is us, viktor derevyanko. he 31 senior lieutenants of the state border service of ukraine were wounded on february 24 at in chernihiv oblast, the enemy fired at seven more employees at dawn, and a shrapnel entered my heart. i am lucky that i survived after such a border guard. hospital and then sent to kyiv to remove a fragment from the man's heart, the doctors wondered how viktor managed to survive, to which he answered them,

you need to live, you still need to serve, the story of a man with an indomitable fighting spirit, we are warriors, not lazy, and our work is righteous, holy, because who is for what? and we are for independence so it is difficult for us, because of that there are no more contradictions, there is one nation that defends its land, there are no more countries of the first, second and third world, there is a civilization that repels the

aggressor, are there no foreign cities and foreign children? homeland and parents for everyone, there are no more soldiers and civilians, we are hardened in the flame , we are united for the sake of victory we believe in our struggle, true to our victory, we are unbreakable, we bandage up, we will bandage up, we will win daily news , together we are strong they waited for salvation and perished under the russian i would have probably survived everything, but simply this picture, when he finished with this animal scream in me, he is constantly falling asleep with him, they tried to break free, killed themselves and died from russian bullets, white great-grandmothers and with inscriptions

children, and then we saw a lot of such cars shot on the road, just shot. they were waiting for someone to come and save them from the russian killers. their goal is to leave as many people as human shields as possible, and our goal is to save as many people as possible, so i must understand what you are saying now depends on the fate of one thousand two five or 10,000 people. they risked their lives and saved others and we didn't even understand if the orcs knew what to say that there is a green corridor, they believed until the last that they would manage to save their relatives from the real hell on earth i said that i will wait for my daughter, but i will not put a person behind bars and release him because if i take him, no one will take him who was taken away and who stayed there forever, why hundreds of people were not able to save themselves and how did the survivors start a new life,

this blown-up bridge over the irpin river in romanivka became a symbol of the evacuation of people in kyiv oblast, when in march russian troops occupied the entire northwestern outskirts of the capital, this temporary crossing saved thousands of people, and so it was called the road of life, but this path of salvation was not the only one. a significant part of the inhabitants of buch gostomel nemishaeva and makarov escaped from hell thanks to the green corridor. in this film, i tried to collect

the testimonies of the participants of those events to find out what it was really like, how many human feet came through this wooden masonry, it is already difficult to count thousands of human destinies, everyone has their own pain, their own misfortune , only one thing unites them february 24, 2022, the day when the war broke into our lives, because it is always a dream ruslan sits above my house, makes a circle and for landing and here they all flew over the house, 35 helicopters somewhere like that and they started from here and began to fly to the airport when already here at the helicopter station, but on the next street on the next street, we thought that he was going to fall right off the roof of the house, because he was flying so low that they did not kill to the grave and i started everything they shout to him for both of these women, the war started in the

same way, they saw black smoke over the guest house , hid from the bombs, cried from fear, and already in the first days of the russian invasion, both said goodbye to their relatives , one with her husband, the other with her daughter here they turned on the machines and the neighbors first broke the blinds. they did that, and then, when they entered my house, they knocked it out straight away. i immediately understood that it was a tank or some kind of equipment. that's right, because the capital welded door and everything. that's right, with they knocked out the fence with meat , bent over the fence, that's it too, well, that's it, they ran into the russian home, they entered through the window, and i understood that they climbed out through the window, and there it was. they started beating everything over and then in the rooms, all because that's what it is, that's it it was happening, let's open it and see because i'm still the

same if honestly, i didn't go through the door , uh, anadel was there, she was at my grandmother's house, here in mirovsky. that's how the sviatoshinsky district turns out. then i went to my house there, the private sector. and we already went to this basement so that she would not suffer in this basement. there were no conditions there, so i sent him with his grandfather and grandmother. that's how the children left, they left before that, they left in a hurry went with us a the man says no, i will not leave my rabbits, dogs, cats, i will leave them to starve to death, i could not

leave him now. it is hard to imagine that here on the border of buchi and gostomel two months ago fierce battles were going on, and their inhabitants did not feel that they were under occupation they didn't come that quickly and blocked all options of movement, as they say , on the 27th we saw the occupiers coming in, they came along the station street and they were smashed at the end of the street, but already somewhere, if i'm not mistaken , on the second or third of march. they already came in that we didn't even understand. they somehow entered the neighborhood already at the beginning of march. the ukrainian authorities began to negotiate with the enemy about the green corridors in order to get the residents of the temporarily occupied territories out of the combat zone as soon as possible. this difficulty and complexity in the negotiations added, so to speak, to the people who made

decisions about that it is kyiv region that will be very difficult due to geography, density of population and due to the fact that the enemy saw plans to destroy kyiv region and take kyiv by motor vehicle about 40,000 of our residents left, that's about it , then we started evacuating by train that left our irpinsky railway station, e.e., it went to kyiv, they changed trains and went on to lviv, only women and children were taken out for three days, we took out as many people as possible by train on the third day e.e. - once we drove off and took it out, and when the train was traveling the second time, the train was bombed from an airplane and the

train derailed already in march, this wooden structure became the only way of salvation for thousands of people who found themselves in the war zone personally i was moved to tears by the post of ukrainian military officer yevhen isayev, who was here in those days . i did not manage to meet yevhen personally and record an interview with him because he is at the front, but i asked him to record an audio message in which he quoted his words, today they contribute i heard the girl in my arms with the hostilities stopped, the words that made me feel comfortable and my heart tightened sharply in my chest that the slipper was a little girl through tears against the background of shots and explosions, they squeezed me with their little hands, repeated na chomanta i love you ukrainian soldiers i love you very, very much and i run with her in my arms forgetting about the leg injury from 2014 and she cries and repeats cries and repeats this is why we will win

this war even if there is nothing to add the author of these words yevhen isayev resisted the russian invasion back in 2014 due to a serious leg injury, he resigned from the ranks of the armed forces in the fall of 2021, but now he again took up expensive weapons when we were evacuating people and we had groups of 50 to 70 people there up to 100 and i entered the group we have already moved bridge and ahead of me somewhere 50 meters, a mine flies and hits a family of two children, a mother and a volunteer who carried their bags, and all four of them died at once . we saw all this, well, it was really hard to

watch because we understood that people were running, running from the war, an explosion, a terrible explosion, and the windows didn't shatter, but the house got married very well. run away and he alone he turns to his back well, he is already on his back, and here it is a second, well, at least the memory is screaming, the scream was simply animalistic, i say you are in pain, what is in pain, tell me, i pulled him by the underwear, i pulled him, and he is so difficult to find, like 10 bags of cement in i sat down next to him and i heard a sound like

this, you know, it is constantly like this, this sound is really loud, eh, so that my hands are sticky and eh, the light is on him, there were 3 sweaters and a jacket, and already from under the jacket it started to flop. then he started gurgling and i was already raising that this is all, this is already the last one he shut up and put his head on my hand like that and ordered me to put it down stopped crying stopped as if she had died

at the beginning of march because i was driving around kyiv they didn't let up that's why dozens of populated areas remained cut off from the world people hid from the explosions in the basements of houses, first the water then it disappeared . the light disappeared and he disappeared in general . how do we live? we don’t know what is happening in the world. we only heard these sounds and we hear everything that crackles . in the center of buchi, and that's how the tanks drive in the middle of the day. yana svirska, together with her husband and other residents of buchi, spent time in the parking lot of this once-elite residential complex, so there is still a parking lot in

the basement. we sat down, rags, mattresses, we barely prepared, we left when it was already less, we bombed, we prepared bonfires, and that's food, you get products, all who stayed, the people who still stayed, demolished everything they had from the refrigerators, 50 people, probably up to 50 well, all together, we were playing and cooking over one big bonfire, but the thought of my daughter, who remained in another occupied village, did not give me peace , what happened to her, how to get to her? and because of all that, this is on this street, on this central street, there

are so many cars , so much blood. because that's all, well, you could walk around in the center, but you could still get shot, and we're not talking about leaving and shooting everyone who left. people still walked for a while, and then even walking was very dangerous , an employee of the buchan city council, dmytro gapchenko survived the occupation together with other residents of the city, says that everyone was waiting for the long-awaited news about the first green corridor on march 9, and despite the lack of mobile communication, this information quickly spread among the people, we would, as a rule, go up somewhere to the top floor and even there you could read sms and read the news because there, in principle, you could hear about the corridor in the news, the gathering point for people in bucha was at this place, so already on march 9, hundreds of people gathered here, similar gathering places were

announced in gostomel and vorzel, however despite the agreement of the ukrainian authorities with the enemy, the long-awaited evacuation of the village did not take place that day, the russians blocked the first 50 buses that were supposed to arrive here, their goal is to leave as many people as human shields as possible, and our goal is to save as many people as possible, we actually don't have a plane to touch, so a plane to agree on, but we still managed to do it. you see , when you talk to the other side, of course you want to say a lot there, but you must understand that now the fate of a thousand and two people depends on your conversation at three o'clock, about ten thousand people announced that there would be no buses, but we knew that buses were leaving from vorzel, the

buses left and were leaving boredyanka. the highway was blocked, or did he say, and for about 4 hours, the cars drove in the direction of vorzel on their own, maybe it will stop, because i myself will say right away that i made this decision to send my family, er, very quickly, and er, well, for me, it was a difficult decision because the first thing i said is that you won't be going anywhere until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. well, in the evening. where are you going to go in the convoys ? you understand that i didn't even know where they would be, but then i weighed the circumstances and took a risk anyway. because, in principle, i didn't know if there would be another chance there were many cases when people left they independently formed columns, some with white flags , yes, with inscriptions, children, and then we saw a lot

of such cars shot on the road, simply shot, well, that means that they did not reach the people who left with an independent column , they were sold on march 9, luckily they survived, but there are many of those left in the city those who did not have their own transport were afraid to take risks, and these people continued to wait for the next green border . among them was nataliya maznichenko, who after the death of her husband was taken by volunteers to a bomb shelter, there was no electricity, no water at that time, the toilet was not being used, there were 300 people. they were driving around the streets, they couldn’t show their noses from there, and guess how many days it was dark day and night. on march 10, the first official evacuation of people from buchi took place, just in principle,

all the residents who came, all of us they stood on this territory in order to be calm because here there are two large and small squares where people could sit so that the buses would come from that side, they would stop here, they would stop from the beginning and you were seated right around the corner all the people who were there could calmly come up and get into the bus and leave. this was the first one. well, the last evacuations were all leaving here. they passed by the captain when they arrived. the russians were sitting there with machine guns, and they stopped five cars there, for example , completely re-examined them

. i would probably have survived everything, but just for the picture when he finished with this beast. i have a scream, he is always there, i fall asleep with him, and i do not remember anything in the blood of this picture, those minutes that were at home starting from march 10, people from the occupied territories were brought here in peacetime, it was a market in the village of bilogorodka, and then in march 2022, this square turned into a large evacuation camp , this whole market was continuous columns accompanying the first rescue vehicle, securing the

rescue vehicle and some buses in the middle there were 10 convoys, some convoys were 20 buses at about this place, the belogorodsk community together with volunteers organized a field kitchen , brought food here, prepared food, prepared hot tea, and when people stopped by, they drove by convoys immediately, well, it was necessary, well, to provide some basic needs kateryna haydamachuk together with she lived here with colleagues for more than a week and even in her short video that she took at night, you can hear the uninterrupted roar of guns, this is what the volunteers left, they will come tomorrow and they will be the same as today and like all these days and we've been here for five days already