A team from laSexta, displaced to the Donbas region, Ukraine, speaks with Rayisa Mykolayivna, a neighbor who has been living on the front line of the conflict for 8 years. So much so, that her house was hit by bombing and she now spends the day in a air-raid shelteralong with other neighbors, waiting for the long-awaited peace.
Accompanying Mykolayivna, they gain access to the shelter and interview its owner. Later, on their tour of the land, they visit one of the cemeteries where there are nearly 300 buried due to the conflict, 90 of them unidentified. This area, one of the closest to the front, is the Ukrainian region where the most fighters have died.
Western aid
The special team sent by laSexta speaks with Vadim Yakushenko, a former Ukrainian soldier and former prisoner of the pro-Russian army. “In case of war, Ukraine is better prepared than in 2014 when Russian aggression stopped,” Yakushenko said. Furthermore, he explains that “they could not stop the Russian army without the help of Western countries”.
In the video he recounts how he suffered first-hand what it is like to be a prisoner of the pro-Russian forces that held him prisoner for a few weeks in 2014. Likewise, in the images he shows evidence of how the Russians are supporting the separatist troops.
Source: Lasexta
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