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On Friday March 25, Russia said it would concentrate its forces in eastern Ukraine and the Donbass region, in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. Report in the Donetsk region, located in the Donbass.
In Ukraine, the city of Volnovakha is almost razed to the ground: 80% of the buildings have been hit by strikes. The Russians and the separatists have taken over this crucial city for access to Mariupol from Donetsk. For the first time since the beginning of the conflict, the Russian army accompanies Western journalists. It is for her to show that there is damage and victims on this side of the front.
Humanitarian aid arrives: the boxes are stamped with the “Z” of the Russian operation. “What matters is what’s inside”, explains a resident. At the head of this city now without water, gas or electricity, the pro-Russian separatists have put one of their own: the mayor of the neighboring town, which they already controlled before the start of the conflict. Half of Volnovakha’s 27,000 residents have left.