The rising tensions between pro-Russian separatists and the government army bring back very bad memories for Ukrainians, such as Sacha, a nurse, who lives near the front line.
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Sacha is a nurse in Slaviansk, a hundred kilometers from the front line. In the spring of 2014, a bombardment partially destroyed his village: “The walls were damaged and half the house destroyedsays the nurse. There was no more roof because a shell fell. It was cruel.”
Violence has intensified since Thursday, February 17 in eastern Ukraine where, for eight years, the Donbass war has never really stopped between pro-Russian separatists on one side and the Ukrainian army the other. If Moscow says it has withdrawn its troops from the Ukrainian border, but international bodies have serious doubts. Tensions between Russia and Ukraine reawaken horrors of the 2014 war.
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Sacha sighs: “The bullets were whistling but luckily they didn’t hit me. On the other hand, my husband was injured. He was hit in a kidney that no longer works.” Before cracking up: “It’s awful. It’s a disaster. I don’t want to go through that again,” cries Sacha, when she evokes the prospect of a new war.
“I have no doubt that it will be even more intense than before. And we probably won’t be here.”
Sacha, nurse in Slavanskat franceinfo
Rather die than leave his village less than 5 km from Slaviantsk: “No, no, no, no”, she replies because “when you have lived through the war once, you stop being afraid…”
The testimony of Sacha who fears the rise of tensions in the Donbass – A testimony collected by Thibault Lefèvre
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