“The sound of their stolen ATV became a trigger for our entire block. As soon as we heard the sound, it meant they were back,” said Kristina. Mikhail and Vitaly came a total of three times. The last time was at about nine o’clock on March 9. Both men were very drunk. “[After parking,] he [Mikhail] came down the street and shouted, ‘Kristina! Kristina, where are you?’ like some backwoods hillbilly. He demanded I go with him. Mom got on her knees in front of him and started begging him not to take me anywhere. Then Mikhail offered to go up to the bedroom on the second floor, but I convinced him to go out to the yard to smoke. Then he became hysterical — he took out his pistol. “There are no laws in war!” he said. “I can do whatever I want to you — and I won’t be punished for it. If you don’t go with me right now, I’ll shoot!”

According to Kristina, she just turned around and went inside. Then Mikhail shot into the air and ran after her. This was confirmed by Kristina’s mother, who was watching the events from a window. Inside, said Kristina, Mikhail started crying, and said, ‘What, do you think I want all this? I’m sick, I’m psycho. You’re a crazy woman, evil. Why aren’t you afraid of anything? You think I’m not scared? We’re all going to get shot here, they’re going to gouge out our eyes. They just abandoned us.”