2024-01-05 20:33:18
The arrival of soldiers by train for their rest. Clara Marchaud
REPORT – Enjoying a few moments with his wife, seeing his hairdresser… the respite is short for the Ukrainian fighters, because kyiv is slow to form a replacement.
Volodymyr was fighting near Bakhmut, in Donbass. But today, for three days, the thirty-year-old exchanged his Kalashnikov for a huge bouquet of roses on the platform of Kramatorsk station. The soldier, who took up arms on February 24, 2022, has not seen his two children and his wife for almost a year.
When, at 1:38 p.m., the intercity train from kyiv entered the station and stopped between two empty carriages installed to protect passengers from explosions, dozens of military wives rushed to their husbands. Anastasia, who has traveled for a day, cannot help but smile when she sees Volodymyr. “At the moment, there are no permissions, but our family must survive, despite the risks”he slips.
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About 30 km from the front line, Kramatorsk, 150,000 inhabitants before the war and regional capital since the capture of Donetsk in 2014, is regularly hit by Russian S-300 missiles. “We want a few days of “normal life”. We…
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