"Bombed for 15 hours in a row": legendary football player cooking at a campfire in occupied Hostomel and running without a "green corridor"
Vladyslav Vashchuk, a former football player of Dynamo and the national team of Ukraine, told how he spent 15 days in the basement of a house in Hostomel with children with food supplies for three days. The legendary Ukrainian defender recalled that there was a time when the bombing of their town lasted for 15 hours. He also told how people still dared to flee from Hostomel, which was captured by the Russian occupiers.
"On the first day, I took the children but didn't make it in time to leave: the helicopters flew to the town. There was food for three days, and we had to wait 15 days. While there was electricity for three days, the situation was so-so. Three days before leaving there was no gas. I didn't have time to get hysterical, although I wanted to. I ate a couple of potatoes a day, drank tea, and was happy," Vashchuk told FanDay.net
Hostomel was shelled mostly from the air. The former football player emphasizes that during the small shots the local children didn't hide much.
"Grad missiles, aviation is another matter. Very loud. There was one time when they bombed for 15 hours in a row. I was already waiting for their ammunition to run out. It was visible how the shells were flying one way or the other. they flew low like a bullet…" Vashchuk admitted.
Vladislav spent all these 15 days with his children in the basement of his house, where there was enough space for three people.
And the house opposite theirs, for example, had 23 people. Because not everyone had basements, and some houses were broken into, and people asked to be sheltered.
"By the way, while we were there, a girl gave birth to a child on the next street. We had little news there, and soon the whole of Hostomel knew about it," Vladislav said.
The former football player and his family were very worried that they wouldn't be able to leave when they replaced the bridge with the road from Hostomel to Bucha. But the next day they decided to breakthrough. From eight in the morning, they waited for at least some hint of a "green corridor." But in the end, they decided to go down their street, stupidly stand in a column, and go. And then cars from other streets joined them.
"We snapped, one might say. Five minutes later a bunch of cars formed, and we went on the road. We drove through the center of Hostomel, everything was ruined. And we passed Russian checkpoints without problems. We went to the Zhytomyr highway, then to Bilohorodka. The road took almost all day. Many elderly people, women with small children, pregnant women who could not walk on foot. Therefore, all 15 days they waited for the opportunity to go by car," said Vashchuk.
