'I'm tired': a resident of a Russian village on the border with Ukraine recorded a video message to Putin - ForumDaily
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'I'm tired': a resident of the Russian village on the border with Ukraine recorded a video message to Putin

A resident of the Kursk region (the border area between Russia and Ukraine) recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. She said that she was tired of living with her son in the basement because of the constant shelling, while she did not forget to note that she supports and continues to support the war in Ukraine. The edition told in more detail with the BBC.

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The shelling of areas of the Kursk region bordering Ukraine has been reported by Russian media almost every day since May 17.

The village of Tetkino, where Oksana Arisheva lives, is located near the border with the Sumy region of Ukraine. On May 19, as a result of the shelling of a distillery in the village, a civilian was killed and another one was wounded.

On the morning of May 21, according to Russian news agencies, the village was shelled from mortars for a long time, 30 houses were damaged, as well as the buildings of the alcohol and sugar factories. Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit keeps saying that shelling comes from Ukraine.

The Ukrainian side does not comment on such statements, but on May 19, the head of the Sumy regional administration, Dmitry Zhivitsky, said that shelling from self-propelled artillery units and small arms was carried out from Russian territory in the area located near Tetkin near the Ukrainian city of Belopole - it lasted almost half an hour.

Zhyvitsky notes that the shelling that day was along the entire border of the Sumy region with Russia.

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Oksana Arisheva, a resident of Tetkin, said another shelling on May 21 was "the last straw." She and her two children (seven and nine years old) regularly hid in the cellar under the summer kitchen, hoping that he would protect.

After learning about the damage caused by that shelling, Oksana stopped believing in the concrete roof of her cellar and decided to record a video message to Putin.

"Decided to go all the way"

“I ask for closed skies and safe accommodation in the border areas, because I’m tired of hiding in the basement with the children or constantly going somewhere,” Oksana Arisheva says demandingly in your video. - The same as for all residents of border areas. Not everyone has a strong basement or the ability to go somewhere with something.”

The video immediately went viral. The very next day, May 22, a collective appeal to Putin appeared in the local village group VKontakte. People urged people to sign the paper at the local Magnit and Pyaterochka stores.

Oksana said that she appealed to the authorities many times with a request to solve the problem, but no one paid attention to her. In her words, she is glad that the video prompted other people to take action.

However, soon Oksana's entry began to be deleted everywhere.

“I got angry and decided: why should I end this? Let it reach the president, let it be published in newspapers everywhere. I want help and support,” says the woman who decided to “go to the end.” That’s why she willingly talks to journalists, unlike other residents of the village.

Oksana has already received the first response to her appeal: according to her, on the same day, FSB officers came to her.

“I thought they would fine me and threaten me, but no, they just asked what I wanted. I said that I want protection, I want a lot of equipment, military, and not only in our village, but also in other settlements,” she explained. “They questioned me about everything for a long time and took me out for a personal conversation. They said: we listened to you, we will try to help.”

“Let them at least put iron shields over the village”

Wu the first day of the Russian invasion On February 24, the inhabitants of Tetkin woke up and saw that a convoy of military equipment was moving through the village.

“They went into stores, we gave them phones so that they could call their relatives. When the column marched on the first day - large and long - we gave them free cigarettes and heated tea. We were all very happy about the military,” Oksana recalled.

However, she says that at first she was frightened of tanks and other military equipment, as she only saw them at the parade. Overflights of military aircraft over the village also frightened Oksana at first, especially at night. The shelling did not begin immediately, but in April, about two months after the start of the war. And, according to Oksana, since then the situation has only worsened.

“I don’t care what they use to cover the sky, even if they put iron shields over the village,” Arisheva said.

Oksana wants more Russian soldiers and equipment brought to the border, and they would return fire.

"Free the Donbass from the Nazis"

When Oksana was asked why she asked for military support, and not for a truce, she replied: “It is not for me to decide about the truce, but only for our president. I think there can be no truce until he finishes what he planned. Until he does a complete purge of these Nazis.”

Arisheva has no doubts about the need for a “special military operation”. She, like a mantra, repeats the propaganda formulations of the state TV channels: “We need to liberate Donetsk and Donbass from the Nazis. Until they are destroyed, the special operation will not stop, and rightly so. Because ordinary civilians in Ukraine should not suffer.”

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The Russian government uses exactly the same language to justify its invasion of Ukraine: “defense against Nazis and genocide.”

Back on February 24, announcing the beginning of the invasion, Putin announced the need to “denazify” Ukraine.

According to Russian media, there are about 1400 Ukrainian refugees in the Kursk region.

“Let them go for good health, as long as they don’t carry out any terrorist attacks here. And let them live in peace, they are all people too,” says Oksana.

But there are already discussions on social networks about whether it is worth closing local groups to outsiders, especially to “hokhlobots” - that’s what they call people with a pro-Ukrainian position.

Many members of the group insist that there is no need to close it, because then their requests will not become public and will not reach the authorities and Putin.

Oksana Arisheva did not receive any official response to her appeal. She and her children temporarily left for Kursk, away from the border. And shelling in the Kursk region continues.

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