13 - Donbass Testimonies Of Pain

‘I decided to get home. I had a hole in my chest, and my leg was hanging from a piece of skin.’

Ilya Meshkov, a resident of Zugres city in the DPR, told how the 13th of August, 2014, he, his friend Dmitry Orlov and two other friends were playing tennis in the school yard. When the shelling by the Ukrainian military began, boys went to take cover in the nearby house. But they didn’t make it. One boy died on the spot. Three were seriously injured. Story of Ilya read by Russian actor Fyodor Malyshev.