the car treacherously creaks under the feet of the blown-up bridge into the river, pieces of asphalt crumble. around the beauty on one side one wrong step and you can break down, like someone is joking. this is our crossing of the alps only the locals are forced to scramble this way every day to survive in order to go fishing. and now we are going down from the bridge, of course, this

adventure is enough, but for me, it’s probably interesting, but if you live like this every day, then it’s probably very difficult, so we really hope that the local authorities are at work along with state authorities. as soon as possible, we solve this problem on our side, we drive into a balakleya, a city in the kharkov region, 50 km from the district center of raisins, a convoy rides a snake and the road is littered with fragments of shells. smoke is visible in the distance, the city is heavily shelled, which means, well, it’s not just constantly noisy arrivals. i talked a little with the military. of course they frame ca n't get in. and what they told me they asked about the positions in yours. yes, here is your position somewhere, they say, no, they just hit us on civilians, how can it be this is, for example, there, when they were carrying something else , yes, some such clusters of people, plus. it's just that we see this flight now

, uh, that's it. it's under fire right now, the regular civilian population. this is the practice of conducting hostilities in ukraine and its western allies. so it’s a monument in our country , it’s surprising that in ukraine such monuments were usually destroyed, and here, as a partisan of the underground, civilians of the regiments were shot, tortured by the fascist invaders at forty. the first inflorescence forty- third year from grateful descendants. surprisingly, there is a monument here, people remember all this, they experienced it. yes, history is repeating itself. this is certainly not sad and absurd. hello how brave

are you walking around the city? it's terrible what's going on. these old people. that 's it, that's it, what's going on? we see with our own eyes in a city with a population of 30 thousand people, only a third of the inhabitants are left, of course, this city is different from all the

other cities where i was, including even mariupol, there are practically no people there, the city is so strong now shoots back that people are afraid to go out was the glue does not work. there are no store atms in trade, except for spontaneous markets, but almost all the cash in the population ran out a month ago. people survive only on humanitarian aid, but there is a risk of falling under fire for it. since there is no military equipment in the city. she's all position on the front line and beyond. here everything remains only the local population from the infrastructure war. only the dry parts of the past they have and the sky, no one moves, they fall on the local population. you know how they are trying to hit on civilian culture, in particular, here is the fence, especially recently

, the russian has already arrived. now they are simply trying to turn it off by, uh, defeating power lines and water intakes, the military with the call sign oder and tornado , the fighters of the national guard are their task stop the actions of marauders, identify the activities of spotters and other groups, but the main thing is to neutralize unexploded ordnance. they are the cassettes themselves that fall out of this setup. small but very dangerous . here is a hit in a residential apartment in the house. there were no hosts right there, otherwise we were there, well, it was unrealistic, because the kids are also afraid to walk, because the children show them this thing has a dangerous thing. she can lie for two days and the self-regulator will work randomly. and

we went to one address at my grandmother's, a gradovsky shell stuck. yes, i wrote to her in the kharkov group. why is he shooting her? are you hitting? are you hitting us? to which we answer we will come to you for a nightmare. you and i will sort it out, the population sees and understands where the front line comes from, just a few kilometers from here, air defense systems, as the military say, regularly shoot down missiles of nato standards. we are now together with the border. we arrived, uh, at a broken gas pipeline, which was hit today and is already being repaired. here it is just this hurricane 220 mm - this is the engine left from the thread, this is the part, but the warhead. right there , i’ll show you a little further, it lies. it is precisely cluster munitions. well this is the engine, it happens and goes deeper. well, the engine worked for two or three meters, and now it falls, a woman flew into the hut, fell straight,

breaks through two floors, the gas passes quietly here. yes, they are now repairing the gas pipeline, interrupted there to brew this scrap metal. this is all already where to attach it, it is not dangerous, the gas workers will go, they arrived immediately to fix the damaged pipe, there was glue, the city services continue to work. otherwise, life here will simply stop, but people's salaries. however , they do not receive. more precisely, someone card. it continues to be transferred to someone no, the logic of the ukrainian side is incomprehensible. it is not clear and why shoot the elderly houses. because they hit the wrong base on

civilians and on the other side of the civilians there are russian ukrainian equipment, perhaps, i don’t think that we occupied. ukrainians are aiming, listen, well, maybe i'll show you now. in the plot that is not here, nothing. i won't stop hitting. at least they’ll at least try to hit civilians, the grandmothers at the forefront turned around, and, please, here she stuck right in the bed into the head of the bed from hail. e shell went we pull out. with my grandmother, that the grandmothers were all alive, frightened, of course, they were sitting. this is a neighboring village fired upon. here are the same hurricane shells. here it sticks out in the fence, and this is exactly what two sections show. here in the gardens in the gardens, several

people were killed. you have arrived at the very repair base at which the ukrainian troops are so diligently aiming, either in it or around it. that's what we are now residential buildings, overeat, it's all around this base and, accordingly. all here are citizens residents the locals suffer. yes, around who resides they are all countries to leave in order to order the detection of the activities of the spotters. 10 near the farm well, either mostly it's lamination, mostly demining. i think we should move away from the tape better. now cassettes are flying over us. so we're on our way, and along the way , more photos of bomb

damage from cluster munitions are shown, collecting evidence for a future tribunal. maybe scientific work. i study at the samara pedagogical university, my specialty teachers of teachers of the history of social science. uh-huh i hope now my scientific work is connected. e with the fact that that's just the master's there, er, the events of the first iraqi war are described. here's how it happened there is a good one. yes, it's a joke. now it has appeared among the people. yes, america bombed, vietnam bombed iraq, bombed afghanistan, but fell in love with ukrainians very much. history. it shows us what is happening and what we are now seeing is that america is ready to fight with russia to the last ukrainians. as they say it was from here such folk wisdom from the experience of history says. yeah, we will win this unequivocally, and so it will be in the balakley, life is already beginning to revive. we proudly have an administration. today you can become

the first working birthday deputy my russia, quite a lot came today, yes, i have a variety of questions, of course, they even handed me a statement now, they asked me to convey to the military commandant that they should allow dressage on a permanent basis , balai routes, andreevka e , kupyansk on the transportation of people, if in a peaceful life take the post of mayor, a high career achievement, then take over the leadership of a city that is constantly under fire is a difficult and dangerous task. yuriy shevchenko has difficulties and is not afraid, but before that i spent 2 months recovering. actually the whole earth life is a raisin. let's just say it's much hotter there, so here. well, for me it's like a vacation, of course, that is, in comparison. here, in fact,

such a dispensary, the head of the temporary administration, was appointed by the military commandant of the city on the same day after lunch, yuri shevchenko arrived at the balakleya and immediately appealed to citizens at the points of distribution of humanitarian aid. and then he gathered about 140 heads of city services of entrepreneurs and activists for an administrative reform. in order to quickly conduct this uh census of the population with the identification of all their needs, and uh to identify. how do they themselves, and the residents of the city of balakliya, gather, and to participate in the restoration of the city, someone, perhaps, wants to be an entrepreneur. someone is going to be busy themselves, someone is ready to go to work in the public sector. someone is ready to work at the enterprises of the electric power of the city,

which we work, which we have become the main task of restoring water supply and electricity. apu fired at the substation and seriously damaged the transformer. uh, the substation was damaged, the casing was damaged, and this special oil leaked out accordingly. it is used specifically in transformers for insulation and for electric cooling of a-a generators. accordingly, oil is needed much more than 30 tons - this is about four fuel trucks with a volume of 9 cubic meters. we have tried every possible instances. we are waiting for an answer, but it is possible that we missed someone who has just this

oil, maybe the solution to the issue with the money that was stuck on the cards of the townspeople for several months. well, it turns out there february, march, april, we are going there, and that is, serious money. if, for example, we managed to somehow solve this problem, including with the help of some russian financial banking , people would receive several million hryvnias, at least. as a result, they would bring, as buyers, the commercial component to the market there. if commercial jobs would appear there, i mean, which entrepreneurs would be ready to. well, pay people wages . that is, it was a very good

help, but for now, some, well, quick ways. how to do this, but we still don’t see the main source of life for the townspeople, about 10 points of humanitarian aid from the ministry of emergency situations , but 2 weeks ago, it was received by and from the ukrainian side, it was checked and let through by the russian military, but then they stopped supplying it from the ukrainian side. what are the main needs? well, first of all, it's products. previously, medicines, well, that is, this is what, well, the very survival of the city depends in the second place, these are building materials for the repair of residential premises and some kind of trade anton the builder now survives without work, like everyone else due to humanitarian aid and a garden. well, now there is already a city government about it. well, look, it seems that the application should not be written. them. it is also necessary

to take her documents, but i’m not very walking, so i now looked after him. that's all issues to solve one of the main requests of citizens to help go to where you can cash out bank cards. but they ca n't go there is an opportunity. yeah, on the territory of ukraine, but then he returned here, respectively, the ukrainian special services, what will they do with them? maybe they'll just arrest them and they won't let us go back at all, because they, uh, well, from their point of view, are accomplices there, ah. russian family in the early nineties. olga came to kharkov. the region, fleeing the military conflict in the caucasus. in baku exactly there how karabakh learned that's it. well, they came here to their relatives and stayed here, and

now another war. now olga, along with her husband, 90-year-old father, daughter and six-year-old twin granddaughters liza and katya, are already safe. before that, they survived 2 months. adam we left due to the fact that our apartment was broken to live completely on me , of course, russian soldiers with children helped us. and so we sat for two months in the basement with the children in the kindergarten, the roof was bombed. we were sitting, just in the basement, the garden was shaking i went scared, and then asked us to talk more. here, too, the employees of the kindergarten will not be here and asked for their own, and then i met a friend there alone. she says, i say, help, we are burning to leave. so he

says, well, let's go. i just talked to the military guys. that's exactly what i'm not going to name either. here and this self- flowered we would immediately be released on our own. why is it needed at all? damn yes, we all voted thought that if only poroshenko that something would change, what would be good for a person. yeah they're going to leave

russia olga has relatives, but in order not to burden them, they plan to apply for temporary asylum, find a job and start a new life, another proof that ukraine applies the prohibition of several conventions. in russia, the power plant was opened precisely and now young colors. what did the mayor tell us?

always wondering where it all starts now?

the area they are just noisy constant arrivals.

in particular, here we are implementing the appearance of suppressing the activities of spotters. so, well, it's basically mine clearing. i am i think we should better go around the city on civilian infrastructure. and now it is being repaired and restored.

on february 24, 2022, russia launched a special military operation in ukraine