Distribution of food to residents of Rubizhne. Archival photoRUBEZHNOE (LPR), May 21.RIA Novosti correspondent, at the request of Evdokia Klevtsova, who lives in Lugansk, a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, found her sister and niece in Rubizhne and handed over humanitarian aid. The RIA Novosti correspondent met 97-year-old Evdokia Denisovna on the eve of May 9, when he congratulated local volunteers and representatives of the RF IC Veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in Lugansk with the holiday. Klevtsova got to the front back in 1942, when she was only 16 years old: then the young girl was a civilian in one of the units. From the Donbass, her part retreated to Stalingrad, where Klevtsova participated in the evacuation of civilians across the Volga, carried ammunition back. However, the holiday turned out to be with tears in her eyes: the day before, Evdokia Denisovna heard rumors about the death in the city of Rubizhnoye of her sister-in-law and grandson, 82- summer Lydia Denisovna. However, there was no way to check this tragic news: there has been no communication and electricity in Rubizhnoye for two months. “We don’t know anything, nothing,” Klevtsova complained to RIA Novosti. There was no information either about the living conditions of her sister in the ruined city, or about the state of health of an elderly woman. Upon learning that journalists were in Rubizhne, Evdokia Klevtsova gave her sister's address, the names of her and her niece. I'm alive,» she admonished. Two weeks later, her sister and niece — Lydia Myshanskaya and Tatyana Sushilnikova — were found on Pushkin Street in Rubizhnoye. Their three-story Stalin-era house has been damaged, and the women have to live in the basement and cook over a fire, especially as the retreating Ukrainian troops continue shelling the city. Information about the death of Tatyana's husband and son, Alexander and Gleb Sushilnikov, has been confirmed. died on March 30 during the shelling there, in the dachas, — Tatyana waves somewhere away from the house. — For three weeks I could not reach him because of the shelling. «All this time, the body of her husband lay under the rubble. When it became quieter in the city, the neighbors helped Tatyana to bury her husband right in the country. Tatyana's son, Gleb, also had to be buried spontaneously — he died literally a week later in a neighboring yard from a sniper's bullet. Tatyana and her mother talked about it, sobbing. They looked at the reporter's smartphone stories about Evdokia Denisovna and could not hold back the tears. «I'm glad to see my sister — we haven't seen each other for two months. I'm glad she's doing well,» said Lydia. The journalists left her humanitarian aid from the Lugansk organization “We Will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive”, and brought back to Lugansk greetings for Evdokia Klevtsova and the news that her sister and niece are alive and well.
