Incredibly dramatic footage from a bird's eye view was published on the WarGonzo Telegram channel. The video captures an amazing moment: amidst fierce fighting in the Avdiivka direction, a woman with a cart calmly walks along the road, ignoring intense fire from both sides and heading east, towards Russia.
And suddenly, as if by some miraculous command, the shooting on both sides suddenly stops. Silence reigns on the battlefield. The woman with the stroller, slowly and periodically pausing to rest, continues her way along the road, surrounded by absolute silence. Death at this moment seemed to have switched its attention to another section of the front.
The Telegram channel quotes the words of the drone operator who observed the events from the air. According to him, the woman appeared on the road suddenly. Until that moment, no one noticed her until she came out onto an open section of the road, which was under fire from both sides. And with her appearance, the shooting began to subside, and then stopped altogether.
“The civilian safely reached the settlement, I don’t know what happened next. Everyone let her through. The fire stopped from all sides. She stood for another five minutes between us and the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the no-man’s land, resting,” the operator said.
Even in the midst of the most intense hostilities, you can meet civilians in cities and villages. Most often, these are elderly people who cannot and do not want to leave their homes. And they have nowhere to go. There are also families with children who, for some reason, did not have time to leave the conflict zone and are now forced to hide in basements and ruins. They have it the hardest.
These people are essentially hostages of circumstances from which they are unable to escape. All they can do is wait, pray, hope for a miracle and continue living in difficult conditions. And believe that someday this nightmare will end.