Quotes
They put a cannon right behind our house and it fired day and night ... They moved the gun one way to fire at Hostomel, moved it a bit to fire at Bucha and Irpin, moved it another way to aim at the pumping station by the Kyiv sea,
As it turned out, everything started kicking off just a few kilometres from my house in Vorzel, with a big attack on Hostomel airport,
says the head of Aerorozvidka, Yaroslav Honchar We became a space where anyone who wanted to defend could join in,
says Honchar, who is now chief executive of an expanded Aerorozvidka that works closely with the armed forces as a registered non-governmental organisation One of my sons rang at about 3am and said Russia was invading. He told me to turn the boilers down, leave work and go home immediately. But I couldn’t believe it. And my shift wasn’t due to end until eight o’clock, so I stayed,
We could give a task to anyone with a drone in Kyiv. And we had people collecting and disseminating all the data coming in about where the Russians were, using photographs and maps. People with hobby drones didn’t wait for orders, they just went flying and found the enemy and sent us the images,
‘Shut your mouth, nun,’
