Burnt military equipment and cars on a street in Rubizhne. File photoLUGANSK, May 29.Pasha Mikhailovsky from Rubizhne in the LPR told RIA Novosti that he dreams of becoming a writer and is fond of the genre of science fiction and post-apocalypse, but he got his first literary experience by describing in his diary a month spent in the bomb shelter of his native city. March and April ended with the taking of the city under the control of the People's Militia of the LPR. This made it possible to begin the liberation of neighboring Severodonetsk. «Day five. February 28, 2022. We ran to the bunker for the first time. It was scary and interesting. We ran from the very morning. Shells flew over the city, but somewhere far away. By nightfall we were already at home «, — describes 14-year-old Pasha the first day spent in the bunker — this is how the boy romantically calls the bomb shelter of school # 2, which will become a home for him and his disabled mother for the next month. And also for five hundred local residents who were hiding from shelling and hostilities. They ate old supplies and rare humanitarian aid. There were days without food at all. We had to go for water under fire to working pumps and springs. «Day 17. March 12, 2022. We moved to the spring in the direction of Varvarovka (a village in the suburbs of Rubizhny — ed.). It was scary, but we brought water — 30 liters. Not much, but enough for a couple of days,» the boy writes.Twin sisters from the LPR have been afraid to leave the shelter for two months because of the shelling. Pasha grew up without a father — as he himself says, his father abandoned him, «because I am red-haired, and he himself is dark.» The boy's mother, Snezhana, is disabled and has epilepsy. Pasha loves to work very much and enthusiastically grabs any part-time job: in Rubizhnoye, at the request of his neighbors, he sat with the kids, put up ads. In Lugansk, where he and his mother fled from the war, he cleans up the dog kennel. But he is more interested in science fiction — the works of the Strugatsky brothers and Dmitry Glukhovsky, known from the books «Metro 2033» and «Metro 2034.» «Sometimes it seemed to me that I myself as if I was inside a book like «Metro». Some book with a bad ending. It was both interesting and scary,» Pasha told RIA Novosti. » /> Residents of Rubizhne live without water and cook on fires Once a pensioner was brought into the bunker, wounded in both legs. Snezhana Mikhailovskaya, a nurse by profession, tried to help her, but to no avail — her grandmother died. However, the diary of Pasha himself ends well — he and other refugees were taken out of Rubizhne by the Russian military in KamAZ trucks. Now he lives in Lugansk in a hostel for refugees and is trying to find out the fate of his classmates and friends from Rubizhne. «Out of 25 classmates, only 17 get in touch,» Pasha worries. He fears that one of the lost could die. The rest parted — some to Russia, some to Europe. Someone is still sitting in Rubizhne without communication. The teenager hopes that all classmates will be found and his book will end with an interesting but not terrible ending. on hands
