Andrii Kovalchuk

“When we retreated from Luhansk Airport, we weren’t squeezed out – we just left it. There was no need to hold it as a strategic point anymore. … You can see what was left of it in the pictures. When we were leaving, it was burning, all of it. Like, there’s an alley of trees, and they’re all on fire. How can you set live trees on fire? But they were burning. Like, when you’re walking, and there’s nowhere to step. And when you walk out at night, you fall into a crater, or stumble over bits and pieces of metal scraps and still fall, or bump your foot on those bricks on the road. The main airport road was all craters and fallen trees. It was a nightmare. Remember those movies about the so-called Great Patriotic War, when they show Stalingrad? Well, they are not even close. You can’t imitate anything like that, no such special effects invented…”