"Evacuated feel freedom." As the Mariupols from the occupied city - interview with TV presenter and volunteer Denis Minin are still taken out

Minin told more about his new work in an interview with Radio HB. - In life to a full -scale invasion, you led entertaining programs, the MRPL City Festival festival and in general, apparently, did not think that he would have to look for, buses, drivers, hear and know a million salvation stories. How did it happen? What helps you stay? - My family has been abroad from the beginning of the war. And here they came back.

My main activity is taking place in Zaporozhye, because it is the first large Ukrainian city to receive all of the temporarily occupied territories. That is, all people who want to return to the unocals of Ukrainian from Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, they all go to Zaporozhye. This is the only way if you want to [get out] not through European countries, namely, passing through the occupied territory, return to Ukraine.

My girls - wife and daughter - have been abroad almost from the beginning of the war, returned, now live in the Dnieper. And they give me strength. Apparently, I keep them. Thanks to them and their team, which has been built from March. Work, if we talk about the evacuation of Mariupols, was systematized. Although it is not possible to systematize it, because it is still a mirror in the occupied territories. How did it work out? I'm from Mariupol myself.

This is the city in which I grew up; the city to which I returned to the largest music festivals of the Eastern coast; a city that gave me a lot; A city that I love with all my heart and a city in which I have many friends and loved ones. Now the heart hurts for Kharkiv, for the cities of Donetsk region, for Odessa… - for the south of Ukraine in general. - For the south. The heart hurts for the whole of Ukraine.

But the one who does not live in these cities who read the news should understand that on March 1, the beginning of the war and you lose any connection with the city where half a million people live. There is no electricity, mobile communications, gas, water - there is nothing. And Mariupol could not call their loved ones for more than a month.

Imagine how many people of relatives, loved ones, friends who worry about them, and they all do not know what is happening to them, whether they are alive, or did they fall on them and a Russian rocket, aircraft or hail? We are in no way measured by the grief, the suffering that the Russian army brought. But it should be understood that the Mariupols lived so much, I lived so much. I didn't know that with my parents all March and almost all of April.

They were very difficult to get to them, I didn't know if they were alive. And many Mariupols did not know. Already August. It is scary to say that summer is over, and we didn't even feel it. And Mariupol (many who write me) or are still worried about going to the territory of Ukraine, they are scared there by men immediately given to the posts; The fact that Zaporozhye will soon be destroyed; The fact that Ukraine has no prospects.

I ask you to put yourself at least for a moment in the place of people from Mariupol. These people sat in the cellars for more than a month in March; They melted the snow to have water that can be drunk; Women threw children to look for men who walked through the water, and then on the contrary - men threw children to look for women, and people died right on the streets of thousands. After that, the invaders came to them, who said: “We were unlocked. Bring water, Ed.

" And then the same people tell that you do not go there, because there will be a srais, you have no future there, and men will go to fight. Unfortunately, we will know for many years. But Mariupols feel it right now in different forms. I and my team have already created a public organization and called it out, because we will take out in all the senses, which can now be exported Mariupol and more. We are still helping the occupied Berdyansk.

It is also a city by the sea, but it did not see such horrors of war, so I always sincerely apologize to all the Berdyans who ask me for help: “Friends, I am ready to help you and help you, but understand: I help Mariupols not only because This is my hometown, and because people survived all the horrors of war there, as soon as it was possible to endure in 2022. So first of all I will try to help my countrymen. " And if there are places in my beads, cars, I always take people from Berdyansk.

We all try to take the free Cossack Zaporizhzhya land. They come from the bus happy, although they can be on the road three, five, seven days. When I ask what you feel when you come when you left this bus, they say, “Freedom. Native land. " I think that by February 24, not every inhabitant of Mariupol, Berdyansk or other temporarily occupied territories could answer so much. And not only the occupied territories. - Tell us about the team.

How did you organize during this time? How many people? What was the most difficult? -The most difficult in the history of evacuation of Mariupol and [other] temporarily occupied territories was that, first, this or that decision had to make, and this decision on which more than one human life depends. The most difficult for the whole team was that there is no connection, first. Second - the circumstances, rules of the game are constantly changing.

You cannot calculate here and now how it is necessary to organize all the evacuation, so that it will pass from A to Y. especially in March, April, May plans flew constantly. You will find out that something went wrong when someone's fate can break - the white is the most painful, most difficult. This is what I still do not give, honestly, it does not give. Although all the drivers, everyone who was sent, who was helped - alive.

- Knowing this danger that it could be a ticket at one end, people continued to ride. How does it work? These people need to write books, films shoot. - completely different people I am glad to meet. For example, which at the age of 18 sat in prison. His name is Sergei. Then he not only sold, but also manufactured drugs in Zaporozhye.

He confessed to me when we met him that he has been trying to correct his life for the last three or five years, trying to give, as far as possible, more good people to compensate for God all the evil that He did. Many people from Mariupol, who lost everything - homes, property, work. There are drivers of girls. There was a driver who is a serviceman - he is now protecting the country in the Armed Forces. Many different people are different in their views, different in their views.