My Village Was Flattened By Russian Bombs

I left my place of residence when the explosions started in the direction of Tskhinvali. Then the bomb hit our village. It fell right into the yard and destroyed our whole garden and shattered all the windows. However the house remained intact.

We were in the basement of the house at that time. It was about 2 a.m. We spent the whole night there. The sounds of explosions started to lessen towards morning, but in the evening some huge explosions took place, as if tons of bombs hit the ground.

Down from our house, on the main road where our troops were located, something really big exploded. Five minutes later another explosion followed. Close to that place was the house where my daughter and her husband's family lived, and the bomb hit their house as well.

In a nutshell, all of the houses are destroyed and ruined. I saw my husband running towards me, he had gone to our daughter to check if she was fine. He told me that two blocks were totally destroyed and said that the women should leave the village.

I don't even remember what day it was. I am so lost, I do not even know what day it is today. I think it was Friday.

My husband was telling other women to leave the village as well, but they wouldn’t listen. He forced me to leave anyway. We went down to the lower part of the village, and drove towards Gori with our neighbor’s minibus. The next day we went to Tbilisi.

Everybody from my daughter's family left the village as well. Bombs hit the whole village, the sound was terrible. My ears have calmed only now. None of our people remain in the village any more.

Fifteen or 20 minutes after we left for Tbilisi, they bombed Gori.