Lazar from Ukraine tells Telegraf: "It's not like 1999 bombing yet, but I fear it's going in that direction"

Serbian citizen Lazar Jaric is currently staying with his wife and two sons with relatives in a village about 200 kilometers from Kiev. He is not sure whether to go to Serbia with his family, because he would leave behind everything he has created over the years in Kiev

Lazar Jaric has been living in Kiev for five years, where he got married and had two sons. He managed to settle down and get a job. When they were awakened on Thursday morning by sirens and detonations, they were distraught. They didn't know what was going on. A day after the conflict began, they managed to escape from the city, joining hundreds of thousands of people in kilometers-long columns.

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They went to some relatives in a village. The journey of about 200 kilometers, from Kiev to that place, lasted five hours. Lazar says again that they were lucky, because they traveled much less than some of their friends.

13 people now live in one house.

"We feel safe in the village, there are no military facilities nearby, we don't hear sirens or detonations. We are allowed to go out and go to the store, which is currently working normally, which is not the case in many other places and provinces in the country," Lazar Jaric told Telegraf.rs.

Lazarus has two sons, aged seven and four. Since the older child has special needs, the decision to go on a long and difficult journey and flee the country like almost half a million people in the past few days is not an easy one to make.

"Friends and acquaintances from Serbia that I know are mostly single and they managed to escape from the country, but they traveled for hours. It's harder for us who have a family and children, to decide on such a step. The journey is not easy at all, and you never know what can happen in this situation," says Lazar.

He says that he is not in touch with our embassy in Kiev and that he does not know what they are advising our citizens should do.

Lazar also told our portal that the situation in Ukraine is not like the (NATO) bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, but that he is afraid things are moving in that direction.

"It has not yet reached the level like when we were bombed in 1999, but every day more and more civilian facilities are getting damaged. As time goes on, there will be increasing consequences for ordinary people," he says.

What the morning when they were awakened by detonations, and their escape from Kiev looked like, Lazar described for Telegraf in the video at the top of the page.

(Telegraf.rs)