The combat pilot of MI-8AMTSh, who was directly involved in the legendary landing in Gostomel airport in first day of the SMO

- This darkness… and in the winter whiteness I saw a red glow going up the skies. And during that moment I felt goosebumps. I cannot explain the feeling. This rumbling of the ground. And I understood that it is it. There is no way back. It has begun.