2023-12-30 09:00:00
An elderly couple after their arrival at the Pluriton center. PATRYK JARACZ for Le Figaro
REPORTAGE – Some 15,400 civilians have already left the “Putinian paradise” of the annexed regions through a 2 km one-way corridor, the last link with Russia. A perilous escape motivated by a liberation that does not come and an increasingly unbearable occupation.
Special envoy to Krasnopillia and Sumy
Posted on the kitchen wall of the Krasnopillia filtration camp, the verses of the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Hrabovskyi sound like a prayer: “More than once we hit the road / More than once we returned home. / Here we go again / Wandering, in pursuit of virtuous truth. »
Under the poem, two women at the table are too hungry to speak. Still wrapped in their coats, they each devour a bowl of soup. At the end of the table, a third, Lioudmila, is not eating. His hands are clenched on a phone; she stares at the blank screen. Several minutes that Daniil, his 15-year-old son, did not call back. Six years since she last saw him – he lived with his grandmother in Russia, and she in Ukraine. Daniil finally decided to join her; after 900 kilometers on the bus, Lioudmila got as close to him as she could, but now she has to wait for him here in Krasnopillia, a small village near…
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