In the Donbass controlled by the Kiev government, villages are the harassment target of the opposing artillery.
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Two grandmothers take the sun, sitting on a bench on the banks of the Grand-Road crossing the village of Starohativka, 4 kilometers from the first Prorusses positions. Valentina Ivanovna, 81, and Evdokia Spiridonovna, 77, are the only living on this Sunday, February 20, despite the sweet temperatures and the beautiful enlightening. The two neighbors gray mine. In the distance, we hear fire shots and explosions. From time to time, a vehicle runs through the village.
“It’s frightful! If you knew how to be afraid during the bombing, it’s unsustainable,” exclaims Valentina Ivanovna, who begins to cry. “The night from Friday to Saturday, I did not clutch the eye, I was terrorized! Never had it struck since 2015.”
“We want so much peace come back, we want to see our children again!” Adds echo, Evdokia Spiridonovna. Starohativka, 70 kilometers south of Donetsk, has gradually emptied from its inhabitants in the eight years of conflict between the Ukrainian army and the Prorusses forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk. “There is no youth at all here because there is no security and no future, Grommelle Valentina Ivanovna. Here, there are still old, most often shemale. And how could we Going? My husband is Grabye. We only have one thing: our roof. So, we live in fear. And if my house collapses? This is the end, I lost everything! A house for which I worked all my life! If it is destroyed, nobody will rebuild it. “
“The village is dying, half of the houses are empty, chained Evdokia Spiridonovna, who lost a bombardment in 2015. But leave, no. I will die here. Where should we go? Nobody Wait elsewhere. These are young people who can leave and redo a life, but we? Before here, there were herds who grazed, we lived much better. “It was before the war. “We lived even better in the Soviet era”, hastens to add Valentina Ivanovna.
“The tension goes up again”
On the wrongs of each other, the two ladies remain evasive. “All we want is that they [the leaders] agree. So they are working back and find a compromise. How long will this horror still last?” This vision deviates singularly of the general consensus in Ukraine, which attributes the fault to “occupant” Russian and “the aggressor” Vladimir Putin. The neighbors keep a judgment from Russian President. “I have a granddaughter in Moscow,” says one. “Me too”, acquiesces the other.
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