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They have been at the front for a year. Molfar, commander of a unit of tankers, Malla, sports teacher turned psychologist, and Artem, surgeon turned doctor on the front, tell 19/20 about their daily lives.
Three destinies impacted by the war. Molfar, 23, is the commander of a tank unit. Newly married, he has no children. “40% of my friends are dead, men and women killed in battle or elsewhere”. He regrets that the tanks he commands are “at the end of life”. Malla is 27 years old. A former sports teacher, she is now a psychologist in an infantry unit. “When I have to call a mother to tell her that her son is dead, it’s the most difficult thing, to hear her reactions, her tears, her cries”she explains. “I want to believe that this war will end, I’m exhausted.”
Live day to day
Artem, a surgeon in a civilian hospital, provides first aid to injured soldiers. “The strongest emotion is when I see that a soldier is going to die. So I take care of the soldiers who are waiting nearby. (…) I never thought it would be such a horrible conflict”. Anyone who wanted to visit France now lives from day to day. 600,000 fighters are mobilized throughout the country, propelled into a war of which they do not see the end.
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