Imagine that you live by the frontlineCome have a look at the forgotten war in eastern Ukraine.
What is it like?
Your house might look like this.
“It was about 5 pm. We spent 40 minutes in the basement. Everything was damaged - the shed was on fire, the house... I just managed to run to the basement.”
- Anatoliy, Luhanske
“In
my apartment there is a small coffee table placed between a wardrobe and a
wall. And it was shaking so much that it banged the wardrobe. Making sound like this: D-d-d-d. Everything
was shaking…”
Valentina, Popasna
Valentina, Popasna
40 fighting-related incidents per day
When you call 112, you're not sure your ambulance will come.
“It’s difficult to take the roads. And it takes time. And a patient’s life often depends on time.”
- Valentina, Popasna
“Everything needs to be paid. If you don't have money, you die at home. You don't go to hospital, you are lying there and dying.”
- Lidia, Myronivskyi
67% of health facilities along the contact line have been damaged
Your friends and neighbours are moving out one by one.
“Some of my former classmates stay here and they have never left the village. Some left and we cannot contact them. How can I leave? I’m not going to do it. I grew up here.”
- Sergei, Verkhnotoretske
Your local shop is destroyed.
“If I go shopping three times – I need 300 hryvnas. It's almost half of my pension just to pay for transportation.”
- Lidia, Myronivskyi
“Customers say ‘bring’ [your goods], but how can I? There are mines everywhere.”
- Anatoliy, Luhanske
“There
was a time, when I had to decide which of my sons is getting to eat this time
and who skips.”
- Olga, the mother of Georgiy, who is living with disabilities, Artemivsk
- Olga, the mother of Georgiy, who is living with disabilities, Artemivsk
With all this, how would you feel?
“We heard the sound of a truck that was coming to pick up the garbage in the yard, we jumped up, and my granddaughter as well. We thought that something terrible was happening again.”
- Valentina, Popasna
“Alina was crying at night, I took her in my arms. I took her in my arms and we were sitting. We were sitting for hours, for 3 or 4 hours in such a way.”
- Lidia, Myronivskyi
“A man can get used to shooting, but he would look like a zombie. There wouldn’t be any life in him.”
- Sergei, Verkhnotoretske
This is the life in eastern Ukraine. It's tough.But people still have their own dreams and visions.
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Imagine that you live by the frontline
Your house might look like this.
40 fighting-related incidents per day
When you call 112, you're not sure your ambulance will come.
67% of health facilities along the contact line have been damaged
Your friends and neighbours are moving out one by one.
Your local shop is destroyed.
With all this, how would you feel?
This is the life in eastern Ukraine. It's tough.
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