On Zytomirnorthwestern Ukraine, air raid alarms sound almost every hour. Eduard walks with a team from laSexta when they start up again. He looks at the sky and calms down his pet. It is not the first bombing that this area suffers: the Russian troops have targeted the homes of the civilian population directly.
The attack destroyed Eduard’s neighborhood and three neighbors have died in it. His house still stands and he trusts everything to his faith. He shows us the talisman that protects him and blurts out some Spanish. He works as a welder several months a year in Girona, where he hopes to return when the war is over to earn money and rebuild his house.
In the neighborhood also lives Igor, who warms himself thanks to the stoves in his kitchen. His area has also been devastated. And if he is alive it is thanks to his cat, he tells us. “I was sitting on the sofa and the cat jumped out. He lay down on the floor and I lay down with him and the bombardment started,” he explains.
The city tries to move on. Meanwhile, in the cemetery, the deceased soldiers receive a precarious but heartfelt burial.
Source: Lasexta
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