A resident of Mikhailovka told about life in the epicenter of armed hostilities

Pelageya Utka, a 70-year-old pensioner from the village of Mikhailovka, which is 4.5 kilometers from Selidovo in the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), told Izvestia on December 2 about life in the epicenter of armed hostilities - with the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) on one side of the street and the Russian Army on the other.

"All my life I have worked as an electric welder at a production facility. In recent years I lived in the village in my little house. When the shelling started - it burned down, and I moved to a neighboring one, then it was burned down too, I changed my address again," she recalls.

According to the pensioner, the most terrible for the residents of the settlement were the AFU drones.

"You carry on and think: who is ahead, me or you? And you also laugh - when you were 17 years old, you couldn't run as fast as you do now," Duck shared in a conversation with Izvestia correspondent Sergei Prudnikov.

The pensioner also noted that she was concussed in the very epicenter of the fighting, when the AFU stood on one side of the street and Russian fighters on the other.

She said that one day she made up her mind and went to leave the village - right in the middle of the road, where the pensioner was picked up by the Russians, and already passing her, "like a valuable parcel from hand to hand," they delivered her safely to Yasinovataya.

However, Utka does not leave anxious thoughts about their native places, in Selidovo Pelageya has a daughter Marina.

"Every day I worry: whether she is healthy, whether she is warm? As soon as I get a chance and it gets quieter, I will go to look for her. I will take a tent with me and stay there," she said.

Earlier, on October 23, the military grouping of troops "Center" told details of the assault on Mikhailovka in the DNR. The fighters entered the settlement in small groups, moving from shelter to shelter, and used camouflaged dugouts. The combat work of the attacking aircraft was monitored and corrected by drone calculations, which interacted with artillery and aviation.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.

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