Evacuated from Chinese Wuhan, Ukrainians in their homeland were met as from a plague barrack
Kirill Kleimenov
Here, a neighboring country. Ukraine. Or rather, what was left of it. And remained for decades a ruthless struggle for European values a bit. Before wags joked: this struggle, she to the last Ukrainian. Now it's clarification: to the last normal person. And end this struggle is already visible without glasses.
Today, the Ukrainians met their compatriots, who arrived from China. The opinions were divided.
The most "advanced" lamented that not one plane was hit by a rocket.
More humane to argue and, in turn, offered arrived to travel to the resort. In the Chernobyl area. The point in dispute has put the security forces in armored personnel carriers. Behind all this madness watched Alena Germanova.
So here it is, the famous Ukrainian hospitality: with a bitter smack of smoke and a risk to the lives of the guests themselves. The warm reception of Ukrainians evacuated from China performed by their fellow countrymen.
Even the plane did not have time to land at the airport, as the residents of the village of Novye Sanzhary blocked the road to the quarantine place in the sanatorium of the National Guard. Someone even brought agricultural machinery: a tractor against an armored personnel carrier. Protesters promise: no evacuated Ukrainian will set foot on this land.
Almost fifty Ukrainians on the eve of their Chinese Wuhan flew in high spirits. On the plane with which Kiev pulled to the last, they boarded, rolled up and down in Ukrainian flags. But even the weather seemed to be against them. Because of the fog in Kharkov, they could not sit down right away. After the 35th round I had to fly to Kiev for refueling. And only on the second attempt landed at the Kharkov airport. By that time, all passengers already knew how they were not welcome. Here is what a Ukrainian journalist who flew on this flight to cover Operation Evacuation writes:
“Passengers and crew are fine. There is no one with temperature. Doctors control everything. Tired of course. No one sleeps for more than a day. The entire crew of the rescue mission is shocked by the protests, as the flight attendant, pilots and doctors are all volunteers, flew to pick up their own, "because Ukraine does not abandon its own." Shame ”.
And this is still mildly said, if you recall what happened in Ukraine the past two days. The quarantine was kept secret. So everyone started to panic at once. Here in the Lviv region, the hospital was lined with tires. A rumor passed: due to quarantine, the medical facility will be closed for both patients and staff. It is unknown what they feared more - to become infected with a deadly virus or to remain without work.
- In order not to let the patients bring in the virus. We need work.
“You are a doctor, how can you ?!”
- This requires a special hospital!
Where to organize this very hospital, came up with protesters in the Ternopil region. The Ukrainians evacuated from Wuhan are supposedly the place in Chernobyl.
“45 people plus medical staff. Do you have nowhere else to lodge them? There are military training grounds. Repair any one hotel in the Chernobyl zone, put them there for 14 days, on this quarantine. You bring them to the sanatorium! Good people, what do you think you are doing ?! ” - the woman is indignant.
There, in the Ternopil region, people surrounded the local sanatorium in a tight ring. A prayer service was held at night in the pouring rain. They prayed that they would not bring evacuated people to them.
In vain the authorities reassured people all this week: there are no people infected with coronavirus on board, and quarantine is just prevention. The country did not believe in this, nor in the ability of Ukrainian medicine to contain the epidemic.
- The president, who promised to be with the people, thank you, Vladimir Alexandrovich!
- And I want to say, I also voted for him, and now I am against, everything is against, he has become an even worse infection than the previous ones.
At the beginning of the week, the president of Ukraine himself began to nod at his opponents, saying that they are raising a panic. Vladimir Zelensky stubbornly does not recognize the denseness of his own country, blames political rivals for everything.
“And about those political“ comrades ”, I want to tell you honestly: if you block roads and slander people, we will bring all our citizens, and we will certainly bring them to our homeland, because it is our responsibility. Constitutional and just human. I personally will bring our citizens to Koncha Zaspa in their mansions, ”said Vladimir Zelensky on February 18.
Buses with evacuated Ukrainians can hardly reach rich mansions today. Extremists of the banned Right Sector in Russia have already joined the blockade of the road in the village of Novye Sanzhary. But in the social network, one of the Kiev volunteers complains: the wrong Boeing was shot down by a rocket. The allusion, obviously, to the Malaysian that was shot down several years ago in the sky over the Donbass. Among the distraught inhabitants of European Ukraine, fortunately, there was at least a couple of sane
TV presenter Dmitry Spivak. “It's a shame. For the country, for people and for absolutely mediocre power. No mercy, no compassion, no humanity, no real state approach. Even in a communal apartment, people behave more responsibly and compassionately. In my opinion, the evolution of man began the countdown, and we gradually turn into "ball-like" ones.
Oleg Voloshin, People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Opposition Platform - For Life Party: “All this medieval horror around the evacuated from China obviously proves that there was no mention of a“ revolution of dignity ”. If, God forbid, the epidemic begins in one of the regions, all the others will fence off it without any external interference.
Just today, the country once again recalls those who died during the so-called "revolution of dignity." “We are different, but we are one,” says a poster behind the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior, who rushed to the Poltava region to reassure people. And here is another manifestation of Ukrainian unity. In the city of Vinniki, doctors and nurses, having learned that after all they do not have a quarantine in their hospital, for joy, they curtailed the protest and sang the hymn together.
Kirill Kleimenov
While in the air was this report,
in Novye Sanzhary security forces still managed to pave the way for a convoy of buses to the resort. But there at the entrance evacuated from Wuhan were met by local people. There are reports that injured two people. To say the least. Sanzharova the carnage erupted.