At the beginning of the month, a laSexta team deployed to the Donbas region, in Ukraine, took the pulse of the day-to-day life of the inhabitants of this region, already in full tension with Russia.
Rayisa Mykolayivna, a neighbor on the front line of the conflict, then recounted to laSexta cameras that she had eight years living the conflict. To the point that her house had been hit by bombing and shee had had to move to a bomb shelter. His was not an isolated case, together with other neighbors they waited for the long-awaited peace.
The laSexta cameras also collected what life was like in the shelter and the drama that was experienced in one of the nearby cemeteries, in which there were nearly 300 buried due to the conflict, 90 of them unidentified. This area, one of the closest to the front, was the Ukrainian region where the most combatants have died.
Vadim Yakushenko, a former Ukrainian soldier and former prisoner of the pro-Russian army, was speaking with the special team sent by laSexta. “In case of war, Ukraine is better prepared than in 2014 when Russian aggression stopped,” Yakushenko said. However, he recognized that “they could not stop the Russian army without the help of Western countries.”
In the video that accompanies this information, Yakushenko recounts how he experienced first-hand what it is like to be a prisoner of pro-Russian forces that they held him prisoner for a few weeks in 2014. Likewise, in the images he shows evidence of how the Russians were supporting the separatist troops.
Source: Lasexta
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