– Why did you drink vodka there, what took so long?

– Come find out! | threw after him.

After leaving the draft board, | decided to get to my place of service tomorrow, since it was

already five o'clock in the evening. And on the way home | went to the Velyka Kyshenya

supermarket, where | bought a bottle of Armenian brandy Noy, smoked sausage for a snack, a

pack of ground aromatic coffee LAVAZZA in a red metal can, and went home. Having made a

feast for himself, | lay down in bed and began to think:

“It turns out that | was seconded to a military airfield in my military specialty, it would be

nothing in peacetime, but during the Russian-led Special Military Operation on the territory of

Ukraine? – after thinking, agreed with the thought, – Still not in the trenches! – and fell asleep

quite early, the sun was still shining, it was still day in the room … At night, | jumped up for no

reason, glanced at watch, the showed ten minutes to one in the morning. | went out into the

kitchen, there was an unfinished bottle of cognac on the table. He poured himself half a glass,

drank a couple of sips and suddenly the roar of an explosion thundered.

– Wow! – | said as | sat down on a chair. | went out to the balcony and saw the glow of a fire not

far from the Vinogradar residential area. Just in case, | put on trousers, socks, a shirt and a

jacket, then added a first-aid kit with medicines and iodine to my travel bag. And so he lay in his

clothes until the morning. At six in the morning | left the house and went down to the subway.

At that time, to my surprise, there were no passengers anywhere. Near the ticket office, two

military men on duty noticed me, and both moved in my direction. One of them addressed me:

– Dear, a curfew has been announced until eleven in the morning, it is allowed only with official

IDs, your documents!

| rummaged through my travel bag and handed him my direction. He studied it for a long time,

then replied:

– And that there are no other ways besides the metro?

– Me in the direction of the bus station and the bus to the White Church.

The military man folded my directing and returned it.

– | wish you to get there without incident, come in! – he nodded to the woman on duty at the

checkpoint, she let me on the platform.

In the underground hall of the platform, along with me, there were two more military men in

camouflage uniforms. They looked at me suspiciously from a distance, they seemed surprised

at my civilian clothes. But my inspection was prevented by a train rolling up to the platform. |

got into an empty car and the train started moving. At the station "Petrovka" three people got

into the car, and when they arrived at the final stop "Lebedskaya" there were already quite a

lot of people with things in the car, all these passengers followed to the bus station. At the

ticket office of the bus station, | saw a crowd of passengers near the window of the ticket office

selling tickets in the direction of Belaya Tserkov. They made noise and demanded

administration. Soon the head of the station came out with two military men.

– Dear citizens! – he addressed the crowd, – In connection with the shelling of a military facility

in the territory adjacent to the White Church, traffic to the settlement of the White Church has

been temporarily stopped! – his words caused a storm of indignation among the crowd.

– What are you saying, we live there, we need to get home! – shouted a woman with full

packages of food items, – There are my children!

– Wait a minute! – The head of the station tried to stop her exclamations, – | haven't finished