Motik Militsakh - NNN 2024

“We were all very scared – there was a lot of propaganda on the radio, and we were told that forty-eight airplanes will be arriving shortly to bomb our city. This did not really happen; however, a bomb did fall onto the intersection of Pushkin and Derzhinsky streets, but it did not detonate. All of us children would ran over to look at it – we had of course never seen anything like it before…

 And so, without bread, salt or any extra clothing, we left the city.

“Soldiers stood and sat on the side of the road – there were a lot of them, I guess they did not yet receive proper orders from their commanding officers. My father somehow managed to find us in this crazy gathering of people. He was already wearing his military uniform and came to see us together with another soldier. He handed us two loaves of bread, some sugar cubes, soap and warm footcloths in a knapsack. That was the last time we ever saw each other."