For security, the hero of this story, as well as his family, we decided to change his name. Sergey lives in Lviv. He is the father of four daughters, two of them are sick with diabetes. He was an activist of the Maidan, although it underwent heart surgery. But all these circumstances do not prevent him to voluntarily go to the front. We talked with him when he came to Kiev, and Sergei is now already the second time with friends is in the East, under the Mariupol.

You cannot sit at home and watch die very young children. My friends decided to go to war. We could go to the volunteer battalions, but did not go because of various rumors, for example, about the same "Aidar". Although they fight very well. Decided to try in the 24th brigade. We are one Lieutenant told us to come in there and this issue can be addressed. Arrived at the front without arms, wrote reports, passed military ID. He waited a week they sat, and as a result we were told that we had not complied with the procedure for mobilization. And when we were still in the military, there was that we don't need, because most of our guys older than 45 years.

It so happened that became a guerrilla group. There were 12 people on a bus, open it pasumalai paint, changing rooms at the local.
Under Mariupol on the checkpoint we were stopped by the national guard under, checked the documents and asked something like that with a grin: "why do you come here?". We said to help you. We got there in the Lviv region still quiet, but here we can at least trenches to dig, at least something will help. They said that we do not need them and that they will cope.
Then we turned to the brother of one of our guys that lived there in the village. And he has accepted us. There and the car in the barn left, because we hitched Donetsk rooms, but passports are not going to change, if you check it out. With him we had a few helmets, food, fuel, and armor. When 24-Ki came made detailed maps. There is a very bad place, some planting and field, all Shine through. If moonlight night, then you can be seen for half a kilometer. And if it is cloudy, then you don't see it. We kids helped, drew the location of the troops. We actually did not think there some kind of sabotage to do or something like that, against the Russians. They simply illiterate guard duty set, because in such cases, when there are any fighting, guards must be staggering. And they were clearly at the same time. And for us it was easy to calculate them. The guard is 8 to 10 armed men and with them not pobresa. We were divided into groups and three nights left in exploration, watched them, recorded themselves when they change. We had with us one regular glasses, which I had bought in England. Once he saw that the guard was talking on the phone, of course, figuring it was easy because he was glowing. It so happened that we crept up to him and bound tied up. Wanted to go, so we didn't kill him, but such thoughts were not even. We only took the weapons, because they had only the Molotov cocktails that I learned to do during the Maidan.
There were still tanks. Although it was dark in there, but we noticed that one of the tank open hatch. This is just a fart was. It crept closer and dropped inside the cocktail.
From a bunch of smoke was pouring down and the next day, because exploded ammunition, they are also stocked. And then we local told that our air force defeated a tank company.
We are there for another night spent, and the second was that we are already on the territory of the occupier, that everywhere I go and put their roadblocks Drawz. Unexpectedly the front line leveled. And where our share was not clear. We were miles 20 and may 15 in depth. When this was learned - it was a shock, because we had to get out. Us some of the local offered old "Niva", "Automobile"to be able to travel. But to leave it is impossible. We will stop and realize who we are and where. And missing, frankly, didn't want to be.
The roads we did not get out, because you will be shot. Hid in the landings. But at night, often bumping into cars, they stopped, because from a distance took us for their own. When the headlights you can understand that we are not regular troops: the form separately. And when we took the fight, then ran and summoned help. But did not expect that someone will come and tried to escape, though it was difficult. In the afternoon, they'd include a quick phone call daughter, I will say that everything is fine and off, but his hands were shaking. We went for three nights. If you ran across someone did not go further, because they have radios and phones were, they could have intercepted. One night we somewhere 20 miles moved to the North.. We walked until then, until he met someone, but every night with someone Perestrello If they had night vision devices - we would be just as easy to calculate, but neither they saw nothing, neither are we. This is what we saved. We had the feeling that we have some power to guard and it gave us a spirit. However, last night out, then one of the guys, acne, shrapnel from hand grenades hurt, we have celox-bandage rewound. The wound was ragged, the bone does not hurt.
When we have crossed a line Mariupol-Donetsk, already knew exactly what was on our territory. The weapons that we had, hid, because when we arrived, we'd have had to pass. The three of us together with the wounded brother took Vitalik and the car drove home.
But in General those soldiers that from there we had paid for the bus. I was surprised that the army does not remove people. They go for 10 days vacation and pay for the road. 49 350 UAH, someone yourself earn well. Although I understand that not every bus will go there to pick up people.
We in the power of something strange is happening. The whole world calls it a war, and we have - operation ATO. Russians fire at us, but for some reason it's not called the conflict with Russia.
Very jealous guys in our leadership. We had different battalions communicated. When he signed the decree on the special status of Donbass thoughts fled. Some said it would be, maybe calmer, because I'd love to never killed people. That's me guys asked: "will you come to Kiev ask why Ukrainian coal is transported to Russia, and then the Ukraine in Russia this coal buys?" It's insanity. Ask Stalin, of the deceased, he would buy Hitler during the war, oil, coal?!
Actually we are a very small unit. And something very difficult to win. But why, when all shouted with one voice: "give us the order and we will otoum..." -this is when Russia invaded, then the command was not. It now is not, but now it is not so real. It's not the arrow war, and the war heavy artillery. Need a technique that wycislo coordinates and long-range artillery.
If we were on the square, as if they made a new revolution, but became, if not worse, staying in the same place. And so people have different moods. And we are ready to die, if it is not pointless if it makes sense. And not just die, and nothing will change. These data about the victims, about' represent, they are not true. I judge by how much we have 24-key, and from other battalions were killed. I understand that the exact numbers no one knows, but they are not as funny as they are pronounced. I knew from the second battalion is now ill. He put the remains of the soldier bags and seriously poisoned corpse poison. Lying in the hospital. He many bodies were seen also in these official figures do not believe.
And identify how they spend? Was in our town such a case: they brought a guy in a zinc coffin, buried, and he through the week calls. Alive.
The mother of his little heart is not received. But for someone else, those remains that were buried - it will be missing people.
We have people who went, returned and said: " I will not go more," and there are those that are torn. For example, Sasha, 23 years old..
[0:05:09] Elena: We have people who went, returned and said: " I will not go more," and there are those that are torn. For example, Sasha, 23 years old, he's from the city. A tall, awkward, somewhere meter virgins' ninety growth. He is the only son of parents who see such Hani-Lai. But he wanted to go volunteer. We even brought the knee pads.
Now it's cold, we had spun bags, as they summer. The jackets are a little warm, and feet cold. In the dugouts is very damp. I was telling the guys about the underwear, but they don't know what it is. About waterproof ski socks also told that in the basin to become the water, and they can't believe that such things could be. Guys that don't even focus, looking at me as if I Europe opened. Well that volunteers bring a lot. The miscellaneous end products, for example, and food they have.
But in army naked.
We don't want the fire came to us, to the West, so we are going to protect the country. But if we had, we easier. We will not be such that people will be divided. On the contrary, it will help. And we have a lot of forests, a place to hide.
If there was a clear line of authority - we have to win, the question to go or not would arise at all. But when fighting there, and there continue to be enriched, buy cars, build houses and no normal orders, he begins to think .
I understand that war is the victim. But this frozen conflict, this truce is also sacrifices daily.
After recording the interview it became known that the guerrilla group, which is fighting Sergei, dismantled a group of militants and the leader of the so-called "Cossack Guards Marshal.
Text: Anastasia Jasinski, Censor.NET
Source: http://censor.net.ua/