Oleg Skripka has told how he came under fire in the area ATO.
Oleh Skrypka, a popular Ukrainian singer and the leader of the group “BB”, made the confession about his trips to the ATO area, one of which he came under fire from militants.
“I was once under mortar fire in Debaltsevo. Scary! Really scary,” shared emotsii musician. According to him, to speak to the Ukrainian military had directly on the trucks that are used as scene. “The tour was, so we just drove around in trucks and they’ve performed. It was a scene, we put the speakers and gave concerts in military units, in the cities,” he says.
Violin remembered about the event under the plant when the car soldiers, who were accompanied by musicians, eliminated the wheel.
“The military tell us: go, we’re not going to die. The car can not leave, because it will be dismantled and stolen. We had no choice, as the guys just leave the night in the field. They immediately came under fire, or their copters figured out, or someone has passed. Don’t know, it was an accident or they called someone, but they covered our artillery, and saved. A little bit of gunfire, about five or six, and then the artillery supported, covered, and before dawn they lasted and in the morning they were taken alive”, he said.
The VV front man also explained his motivation for such dangerous “tour.”
“First, you realize that you apply a small share in order that here we have no war. And secondly, here still there is a fairly delicate moment. As soon as the war began, every man, if he more or less adequate, asks a question: I will go to the front to fight? Consciously or subconsciously, this question arises, and you make choices, also consciously or subconsciously. I made the choice is this: I am not a military man, I can’t shoot. I have such peace, I want to play, and its support, and with children to be,” – said the Violin.
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