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(ENG SUBS) On the front line. bordering Peski, between Donetsk Peoples Republic & Ukraine

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(ENG SUBS) On the front line. bordering Peski, between Donetsk Peoples Republic & Ukraine

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Hey Zhora, how are you doing today?
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So far, so good. It's been silent here today. Let's see if it's gonna stay like this. We will arrive soon.
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They are constantly shooting at us from that side. From SPGs and all kinds of firearms.
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It's silent now. They used to fire more often and much more intensively.
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Have nothing to add for now.
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So when did previous shelling happen? Was it during the night or morning?
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It has happened barely 30-45 minutes ago.
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They used something heavy, maybe SPGs, we really felt that.
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They also tried to slip through our lines last night. We were seeing some movement and neighbouring units were reporting the same.
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We could also hear Ukrainians firing at our neighbours.
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So, what do they use? Mortars?
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No, we haven't heard any mortars firing yet. Only firearms and a APC.
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They're just firing at us all day and night, they don't give a shit about those Minsk Agreements.
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But our lads are holding strong, we're just keeping them away and that's it, we never open fire first.
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We open fire only if they are obviously trying to advance. In that case we strike them hard, but now it's calm
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It's almost been an year but the border didn't move at all?
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Well, not entirely, we captured few places on the right flank. Their infiltrators used to stalk around and shell us from there but now our lines are stable.
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So how are you, how are you feeling?
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Oh, I am Okay. Just want to return home.
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We really must liberate our land faster, but with these Agreements we are just hanging around doing nothing.
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Cannot liberate our land and go home.
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We haven't seen our families for a long time, we rarely visit our homes and see our children and wives.
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Just want to sleep in my own bed peacefully
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And where are you from?
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I won't tell this
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Okay
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And what was your job?
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I was a builder...a constructional fitter...before the war
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I've never served in army. Could've never thought that I would have to join militia when I am 36 y.o.
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And so it goes
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So you are just holding positions here under shelling?
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Yes, we are. Our mission is only to hold them off, we don't advance. We are not given such orders at all.
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So how do you pass the time here? Just sitting in trenches and keeping an eye?

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After all these observation shifts you can only eat something and take a sleep.

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And what do you see on Ukrainian side?

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We don't see much, but we hear them when they are getting close to our position. Other lads did, but Ukrainians rarely come at daytime, they prefer night.

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This ground is too open for them since we are occupying the high point and can look over the whole area.

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For now they can do nothing here at day.

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These guys saw more.

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Little by little we are strengthening the front-line, making some sort of a border to keep them at bay, but they are getting more impudent

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and are not following the Minsk Agreements: they're shooting at us, bringing back heavy weapons and vehicles every day.

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So while we are upholding the truce, they are mustering forces for a new assault, but Kiev doesn't care about its soldiers:

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they just order soldiers to go and leave them to die and rot on the fields and let the dogs feast on their corpses.

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Cannot be otherwise with such leaders holding power.

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People don't call Poroshenko - Porky for no reason.

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That's his name, isn't it?

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He will be cleaning my carpets.

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In latrines.

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For now this is a no-man's land, we are not ordered to advance, so we are standing still.

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But if ordered, we will take Peski in 2 hours anyway.

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Of course they've brought a lot of tanks there and other stuff too, but as you know:

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Tanks can roll over the mud, but not over OUR mud. They stuck in our field very quickly.

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And they burn well too. They are just junk: unrepaired, unprepared, unattended - they just dragged them from junk yard and threw boys inside.

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These boys don't even understand for what do they fight for: they are told that they're fighting against invaders.

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We were always holding this position ourselves with powerful weapons like this rifle.

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But they bring here everything they can get and dare to say that we are shooting at them. No way, we don't.

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Only if they come close, but for now we're just tolerating them.

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But you can hear them shelling you?

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Yeah, just a bit, they never go fully silent: they're always firing something like RPG or grenade or can even send a APC to shoot at out positions.

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But as you can feel, it's completely quiet now.

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And think what they've done in Crimea: blew up the power lines and left the whole Republic and all little children there without electricity

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They are just fascists and nothing more but a scum of the Earth: that critter Yatsenuk and his filthy buddies.

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It's completely insane leaving the whole city in the dark. Children live there too: Ukrainian, Russian, English - I dunno really, a lot of people live in Crimea, Tatars too.

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And now, after Crimeans are left in the dark, those critters are going to cut the water supply too?

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Doesn't it look like genocide. Those critters are fascists,

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And they will pay for their crimes.

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