Residents of Zasillya in the Mykolaiv Oblast about the months of shelling: «Air bombs were dropped between our houses»

Residents of the village of Zasillya in the Mykolaiv region were on the front line for 8 months. During this time, 5 civilians were killed there due to shelling by the Russian army.

This is stated in the Nikcenter report.

Before the start of the full-scale war, up to a thousand people lived in the village, now there are only 200 of them. The main reason why the locals will not return is the completely destroyed houses, there are more than 10 of them in the village. All 8 months, the occupiers shelled the village and dropped aerial bombs between the houses of the locals.

Destroyed houses in Zasillya in Mykolaiv Oblast, photo: Nikcenter

Destroyed houses in Zasillya in Mykolaiv Oblast, photo: Nikcenter

Destroyed houses in Zasillya in Mykolaiv Oblast, photo: Nikcenter

«A helicopter was hanging over the chimney, covering the second one, which bombed the settlement. It was terrible here. Aerial bombs were dropped near the gas station. There are such pits, climb into them, and you will not be seen. Three families have returned to the street where I live. Others did not return, because there is nowhere to go. Houses were destroyed by shelling,» says resident Olena.

Some of the dead were buried by their own hands in the local cemetery, locals say.

«We were allowed to go through roadblocks based on our registration, arrived at a house where there were cats, dogs, and some farm. But every visit was a fear, we saw more and more destruction in the village, learned about the dead compatriots. We had to take a trailer to take people who died from shelling to the cemetery,» says Mr. Mykola.

Residents of Zasillya weave camouflage nets, photo: Nikcenter

People dared to return after the de-occupation of the Kherson region. Locals organized themselves to help the military — collected funds and began weaving camouflage nets.

«We do not have a single family in which relatives are not fighting at the front. We worry whether they will return, whether they are warm and not hungry,» the people said.

 We will remind you that earlier NikVesti showed how the village of Maksymivka in Mykolaiv Oblast looks like, which was under Russian occupation for eight months. Almost all the houses in the village were destroyed, and most of the residents never returned to the settlement.