Alexander tells his story of Ukrainians fighting Ukrainians.
He also answers a question.
No, Russia did not abandon Ukraine War "Rebel" Soldiers after injured. The People of Russia and Russia its self have decided to help the victims of the Ukraine war.
For the last almost 4 years the Ukraine war has been raging and soldiers, aswell as civilians have been getting injured and killed everyday. This is is part 3 in a long series show what happens to soldiers after the are injured fighting on the anti Ukraine government or "Rebel" ( DPR & LPR ) side of the Ukraine. For the first 5 parts of this series we will concentrate on the Moscow Russia based charity fund "Dobro mira".
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Hello, my name is Alexander. I'm from Lugansk, LPR now
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now this city is in conflict with Kiev.
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I am now in the charitable foundation Dobro Mira
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How did I get here?
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In 2014, when this revolution and the Maydan began
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the illegal overthrow of power took place in Kiev,this is my opinion
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We went there, had a look. We saw how this happened in Kiev,
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how power was overthrown, how people behaved. I didn't see anything bad in this situation
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I didn't judge them. they wanted to jump out there, they didn't want to love Russia. They wanted to prove something to someone, and to get closer to Europe. Well done!
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This did not concern us, we lived our own lives
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But when they started to come to our city and tried to tell us what we had to do, what we had to say
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what language to communicate. They began to say that we all were bad here and we were slaves.
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I haven't heard this personally, but my brother, friends said they've heard.
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This was really no good. Some things changed in me.
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I always loved my country Ukraine and I believed this was my country
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But, look, when a neighbor comes to you and starts to teach you how to live,
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how to talk, in what language.
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For example, how could I speak Ukrainian if I was grown up and brought up in Russian?
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How can I accept Bandera and not to celebrate the 9th of May (Victory day) if my grandmother's brother went through World War II?
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These things are not clear for me
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When the hostilities began and the DPR and LPR forces faced the Ukrainian battalions
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We were watching this. We did not hurry to go and take up arms.
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There was no such thing that we would take a weapon and immediately run
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I can't say the exact date. I think everyone remembers it. The date when the plane fired the residential street
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in my home town - Stanitsa Luhanskaya
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just fired the residential street
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They said in the media that this plane was firing rebels
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this is my home and I know it perfectly well. I knew where the rebels were and where peaceful people lived
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So that plane destroyed the whole street and when we got there, we saw how people reacted.
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Someone came home from work and he didn't have a family and a child any more.
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Someone collected in the plastic bag the remains of his wife, child, mother, father.
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It was scary.
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Then I realized that if they didn't believe we were their family,
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why do we need them? We would live our way.
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After a couple of days,me and my friends made a decision that we should take up arms and go to defend our interests, the interests of our people.
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Ukraine refused to have us
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We had new power in here. Ukraine could stop it or went negotiate
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They didn't do that. Maybe they wanted to fight. But they could prevent civilians from dying
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If they didn't want peace they were our enemies,they were not our family
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This was a hard decision of course, because there were relatives and people who were against
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We came to the decision that we must go and defend our home. And we did it.
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I do not remember exactly, it was a long time ago,
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we had a Cossack battalion
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We came and we talked to the commander. All of us were adults
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All of us were healthy. We understood perfectly where we were going, why we were doing this and what we were going to do.
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We had a talk, give the documents and began to serve.
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Everything was fine the first day
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There were just shellings in woods. We did not have combats near the houses.
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I lived in a place where there were three bridges. Through these bridges you could drive into the city.
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Then there were 12 km of fields, and then the city began.
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We were standing on these bridges. But I was there only 2 days.
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After 2 days I was changed. I went home to visit my mother.
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I arrived home and spent the night at home. In the morning I had to come back and continue serving.
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And on my way to the position I realized that there was shelling at night. I saw my friend's broken house.
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I decided to stop and go see if he needs help. He lived there with a grandmother.
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I wanted to help
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When I came the neighbors told me that there was no one there. They had gone somewhere yesterday.
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I left the house. I was later told that the Ukrainian troops took the offensive from Starobel'sk
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from Russian border
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There are 45 km from my house to the border with Russia. Ukrainians took the offensive.
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When they came into the village they began to fire at first. And on the way to my positions I got under fire.
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The only thing I remember is two claps and that's all
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and then I just lay down. I realized right away that my leg was injured,I realized later that my stomach was injured too.
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I want to say that my guys did a great job. We had a hunter's house nearby, where they were rebuilding the fence.
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Thank them very much. When I was laying many people just ran. I understand them,because if it was quiet, maybe someone would come up and help.
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But when they continued shooting there were panic. They saw that a person was lying and dying,
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someone thought about his life, someone about their family
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But these guys were not afraid. They ran up and provided the first aid.
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They hid my documents from the Ukrainian servicemen. They did not show them.
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They called an ambulance. They stopped the car.They saved my life.
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I still do not know these people. I've talked with one guy, but we lost his contact.
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After that I went to the local hospital. Doctors did great job. They provided first aid, did an surgery, all I needed.
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On August 24, Ukraine's Independance day,
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They made a present for us on their holiday. Ukrainian army shelled the hospital with the patients in it.
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They fired at the hospital, doctors took us to the basements.
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We stayed there until the morning and we were taken to Lugansk.
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to the regional hospital. I don't remember all the treatement. I spent about 1,5 weeks. I was given 7-8 surgeries
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It did not bring results. The intestine was damaged and the contents started to come out. The lung was also damaged.
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Doctors could not clean the body. Because of this, there was constant inflammation.
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The leg was not treated yet ,because it did not threaten life. My leg could not be treated, because I'd lost too much blood.
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After that, I met a guy. He worked there in an intensive care unit.
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It turned out that he played football before the war. We came to them to play football in Antratsit.
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He just remembered my face, because we played against each other.
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He supported me throughout the treatment in the Lugansk regional hospital.
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As it turned out, later he also went to war with the rebels.
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I do not want to offend anyone, I do not want to say anything bad about the doctors who are possible even now in Lugansk, but
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but mostly the doctors and the management were more worried about their salary, and their benefit, than about health of people.
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There were no questions to the medical staff - nurses, orderlies, to some doctors who contacted with patients,
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they always helped, so that the person felt himself good and comfortable.
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But the management was more worried about getting some benefits and help.
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They wanted to feed their families may be, I don't know.
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After I've talked to this guy, I do not remember his name, he said that there was an opportunity to go to Russia for treatment
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It was necessary to give an answer within 2-3 days. The place could be occupied, many people were injured.
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When my mother came, we immediately decided that we should go. There was no improvement. I lost weight.
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After that, we were taken across the border with Russian Federation
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I will not say in which cities I received help, won't name doctors and institutions
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The only thing I can say that everywhere in Russia I was treated well
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There was a free treatment everywhere
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Russian Federation provided us with all necessary treatment for free.
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The only thing was that they could give some recommendations. For examplea person needs some pills that the state can't provide. But these pills would have made him feel better.
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If a person has the opportunity, he could buy them himself.
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And so everything else was absolutely free of charge and the attitude of the doctors was really surprising,
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because they did not divide us. There were no ours, foreigners, newcomers or someone else. They just treated us.
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They put me on my feet, my leg did grew together for about 2 years.
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In 2014 I got there, and in 2016 I started to walk. I was wearing Ilizarov's apparatus and using crutches.
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You know that the state can not support you all the time. For some time I should go to other places.
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There was also an unpleasant situation. Because of that I could no longer receive treatment from the state for free.
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The treatment had to be continued but I didn't have the financial possibility. I couldn't pay for myself.
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I didn't have any documents, except the Ukrainian passport.
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So volunteers in St.Petersburg began to help us. They helped us a lot.
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They helped me to get to the hospital, helped with a treatment. They always supported, they came, talked to us. It was very important.
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Half a year ago, the inflammatory process started in my leg again.
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After removing the Ilizarov apparatus some time was needed. The leg should heal and it would be possible to walk.
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The inflammatory process was started and it was necessary to make a surgeon urgently. Again, there was no such opportunity.
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We found out the charity fund Dobro Mira
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It was cituated in Tula by that time. We sent out our medical histories and all the data they needed.
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After couple of days I got a call from the fund chairman. He said that they were ready to accept and help with treatment.
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I did not have an alternative at that time. I took my stuff and went there.
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When I arrived I saw the guys and got acquainted with everyone.
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It was a very friendly team
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You do not come to the hospital, to some people you don't know, but you come to a family where everyone is ready to support, to help.
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And literally within 1.5 weeks I got a call. I was said that the state programme started in Russia. They can take me to the hospital to operate
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Of course I agreed. I was taken to a hospital and I had a surgery .And since then I am in this chartity organisation.
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First I was like a ward. I started to move later. There are still problems with the leg,it is still at the healing stage, but I can already move.
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I can lift something, I can do something, I can go somewhere by myself .
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I started to live an independent life. I became not only a ward, but a volunteer in the fund.
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I started to help as much as I could other guys.
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Someone needed to go to the store or go somewhere or take some documents, bring documents.
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Any help that I could provide in the fund and beyond it. I provided assistance to wards and my friends. I think it's the way it should be
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Then we moved to Moscow. Now we continue our work here, we try to help ourselves and the guys who are being treated.
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I can say for myself that at the moment I need to treat a leg so I won't worry.
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I have no plans to return to my homeland, because there are Ukrainian army's positions at my home place.
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And it's a very difficult situation in Lugansk.
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I will not be able to serve any more, and it's difficult to find a job.
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I know this because I've talked to friends and relatives.
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Therefore, I decided to stay in Russia and try to live here.
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In my youth I missed the most interesting, so now I want to catch it up. Now I'm doing some paperwork.
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I want Russian passport. All this takes time, money, strength, some effort and support.
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I am tryng hard. I think everything will be fine.
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The most important thing is that here I live with good people.
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with the right leaders. My family, my mother, my brother, my beloved girl, they are all next to me.
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They are far from what is happening now in Lugansk, in Donetsk and in Ukraine as a whole.
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This is my story. My life is like this now. In the future I think it will be better.
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We will try to help the guys further and do everything possible to get them to their feet as soon as possible. They should start living their lives.
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I just know that it's very difficult to enter a full-fledged life. If you are a year or two on a hospital bed you see only the medical staff and some certain people every day.
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Then later it's hard for you to communicate with other people.
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It's uncomfortable, it seems to me. This is also very important and we will try to help everyone who needs our help.Thank you.
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