'We want to go back home someday, only to a different Donbas,' an elderly couple told Newsweek, 'one where they don't use people like us as human shields.'
For residents of eastern Ukraine, living in a state of war is not entirely new. The United Nations Office of the High Commission of Human Rights estimates that from 2014-2021 fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists resulted in at least 3,404 civilian deaths.
An elderly woman sits on her bed with her dog at an apartment damaged by a missile explosion in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on May 5, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Analyst von Twickel described the devastation in small towns in the Donbas.."Severodonetsk also is more or less uninhabitable. Kramatorsk and Sloviansk have been hit hard.""Before, there was occasional shooting along the front," Shuyrgin said."Now it's constant.
The husband and wife have differing opinions on which side was most to blame for the events in 2014, but both clearly remember the dates and locations of artillery exchanges between Russian-backed separatist forces and the Ukrainian troops trying to retake the country's east. If, the Ukrainian state was involved in a campaign of genocide against people like Vladimir and Elena, as Vladimir Putin now claims, they certainly did not notice.
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