Posted on 10/29/2014 8:22:07 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
October 29th-230 day prayer Marathon. A little about the trip to Sands village, which is adjacent to the Donetsk airport. Sands, at this stage, the village is closed not allowed by both DND and the Ukraine. Download the complete car donated products, we moved in a predetermined direction. Predvvritel were holding talks with the Ukrainian law-enforcers of the Green corridor. The corridor we were promised, and now it is not promised. They said they will examine the products on checkpoint and take to the village, which did not suit us. Having good understanding for straightforward trails, we still left for the Sands. 30 kilometres of trails, were completely empty, not one car passed and about a dozen counted. The closer we get to the airport, the more the road reminiscent of Apocalypse. Fallen power lines, road in sinkholes of exploding mines and ordnance/shells. Listening to the instructions of guide, we accelerating in the obstreleevymyh areas, we rode into the Sands.
In the village I saw not one whole House. The locality has systematically been fired upon by militants because they believe it is where the military protecting the airport is quartered. In the village, remain live people who have learned to determine by the sound of a flying when to hide in the basement. In the Sands there is no water, no gas, no electricity, no not one store. Food is cooked on an open fire, the happiest have the luxury of gas generator or a gas balcony. Groups of people are living in basements, which hastily equipped for habitation-table, chairs, stove wood stove. Kerosene lamps, candles are what is worth their weight in gold.
People do not leave for different reasons, but certainly not to guard their possessions or protect their property. As houses, apartments are destroyed, through the broken glass and open doors can be witnessed the whole of human life, furniture, household appliances, personal stuff, it's all just lies before your eyes. Unfortunately, looters have taken advantage, and even more annoying is where that looting is coming from. So, people do not leave, as they are afraid to stay alone, and live in groups bands under the shelling of Grads, huddling in dirty basements of dilapidated houses.
At two points we unloaded the groceries, a lot of praying along with the remaining people, met with several chaplains and one of my friends, and just prayed with them. They say that the Sands is an abandoned village, and the terrorists bomb it daily, and local asked us: "Tell everyone that people live here." We happily and safely left the village, over the airport rose black smoke, and that is Buhalo in the sky, and after a while again began the shelling in the residential areas of the village. Again, the people living there huddle in their basements, in spite of the flame of a candle or kerosene lamp, with regret watching as the candle burns down, and beseech God that this hell will be over. Do good is possible.
The battle for Donetsk Airport has lasted longer than the Battle of Stalingrad...
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