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