There are a few weeks Debaltseve became the martyred city of Ukraine. The scene of a fierce battle, one of the worst of the civil war that has already killed 6,000.
Three weeks after the capture of the city by the rebels, residents of Debaltseve back to life. They were 25,000 before the war, between 5 and 8000 today.
"We survived, it's impossible to tell what we have lived, said Nadezhda Ignatenko. At first, when I could still hide in the cellar, I spent many hours to tremble with fear, and the bombs did not stop falling. "
Electricity has been restored. Humanitarian assistance distributed buckwheat, sugar, sunflower oil and compotes. Also the bread through the plant reopened Saturday. The hospital hosts residents in shock. "There were so many dead, the dogs ate says in tears Nataliya Maslova. Hands, legs, heads, because it was impossible to move them. "
Taking the city was crucial for the separatists, it is an important railway junction between the rebel cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The rebels have settled, "It is already the third cease-fire to me, says Cherniy, a pro-Russian commander. And they all ended the same way: strengthening positions and increase the troops. "
The nightmare of the Eastern Ukrainians is not finished.
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