Old woman Tatiana Grushka You can’t be happy with the radio. no road today work and he didn’t climb to the top either. Maybe later, when I’m done working at home, I’ll see if there’s insurance there. In his village, Kamianka, the snow is melting and mud is sticking to his shoes. Humidity and wind began to gnaw at the homes of those who fled. destruction and abandonment. Where there were 1,300 people, there are now about 40 left, as most of the residents left when the first attacks started a year ago.
But Tatiana does not want to leave. He fled for a few weeks when the town was occupied by invaders. russian forces and returned last September after the Ukrainians they will continue this town in the south of the region Kharkov. Tatiana is resisting without electricity, gas or running water, He kills for hours with a short scared dog following him everywhere and his son Nikolai, who looks twenty years older than 42. Although her choice is to talk about her husband who lost a leg a few weeks ago when he stepped on a mine. Since then she also broke up and they are no longer together. Worse still, the memory of her friend Natasha from the village. Natasha ran away Spain After a missile kills her husband, Tatiana doubts if she’ll ever see him again.
“The thing I want most is to see her one more time. Please tell Natasha that,” the woman says, sobbing. “We didn’t. Where should we go? We have land here, we have a tractor. All three of our cows are family. How do we leave?” rumblings from the mines detonated by anti-explosive agents. “This is terrible unemployment from some of these places. There are places with residents who do not know whether they are in the hands of the public. Russians or Ukrainians, because they’re out of touch,” explains Tatiana Zolotopup, a volunteer from Lusk.
streets full of rubble
Graffiti of the letter Z of the Russian Army. Rubble-filled streets. This destroyed buildings, with dangling electrical wires. Remains of battle tanks and a painful nature. The war in Ukraine is going Dozens of villages were destroyed almost completely uninhabited by the civilian population. are ghost towns taken over by Ukraine after months of Russian occupation or near the front lines. where is there silence interrupted only by some annoying noise. The few remaining residents live in impossible conditions.
Private Anton is originally from Horlivka, but worked as a security guard at a tourist complex in Yatskivka, a town in the Donetsk region where the civilian population is no longer seen. almost just walking around military vehicles, most of them in the direction of the main battle fronts, several kilometers away. Anton also works at the Port in Donbass, but returns here to see what’s left and giving food to some old people they don’t want to leave.
“We evacuated almost everyone I know. I think there were only 20 people left in the whole town. That’s how it is now,” he says. “I see no reason to rebuild anything here, there is nothing to rebuild,” he reasoned. “I came to see a friend’s house today as well. The house was completely burned and destroyed. destroyed because the Ukrainian army attacked a self-propelled artillery unit of Russian troops nearby. Everything burned,” he explains in a short interview, before getting into the car and getting lost on a bumpy and muddy road.
This is also the case in the suburbs of the Kazakh village of Oskil. isiumThe tortured city of Kupiansk, which continues under constant bombardment, as well as many towns in the region Donbass. They are devastated towns and cities inhabited by few inhabitants who cannot escape. Survive in dilapidated homes or damp basements. Almost no people walk on the streets and cars move as fast as they can to complete the journeys as quickly as possible. It’s not always easy. The passage of tanks and multiple bombardments left many roads as battered as the souls of the inhabitants.