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Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories
DPR Peoples Militia Platoon Commander Ryka. Photo | Eva Bartlett
October 16, 2019, Mint Press News
Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories
On September 2, I left the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don via minibus heading northwest to the border of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and on into Donetsk. For my first few days there, I rented an inexpensive apartment in the heart of the city. Walking on a long tree-lined and cafe-filled pedestrian walkway, life seemed normal. But I would soon find that for the people living in Donetsk, it is anything but.
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In Krutaya Balka, a village north of Donetsk which is routinely attacked by Ukrainian forces with shelling and heavy machine gun fire, I meet a man standing outside his home, where he lives with his wife, roughly 600 metres from the front line.
To my question about where his home has been damaged he laughs, “Many times. Which house hasn’t been? The roof, the wall… from mortar fire and heavy machine gun fire.”
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Donbass Defender: “Those who support Ukraine should come talk with civilians, to understand how much they suffer”
North of Donetsk, I visit Krutaya Balka village, on the outskirts of Yasinovataya, another heavily hit area.
The village is divided into two parts: one part exposed on the front-line, we can’t go there, the road leading to it is under sniper fire; the other half of the village is slightly further away, and has 15 people still living there, again mostly elderly.
Just off a road prone to Ukrainian sniping, I interview Ryka, the young-looking DPR Platoon Commander who has accompanied me here.