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The air alert siren starts to roar but no one pays attention to it.
Customers come and go as if nothing had happened from the small Simia (family) supermarket in the center of Sloviansk.
Despite the haunting noise, the dogs continue their nap on the sidewalk.
A couple passes by quietly with a little girl dressed in pink, policemen smoke on a bench, laughing, and a young girl sells fish that are still wriggling in their crate.
We are used to alerts in Sloviansk, it's like that all the time
, she said.
The rest of Ukraine has just discovered the war;
we have been living with it since 2014.”
Dangerously exposed
Yet war returns to Sloviansk in a more dangerous version.
This small industrial city in Donbass is one of the main targets of the new offensive launched by Moscow in eastern Ukraine.
After taking Izyum to the north on the Kharkiv highway, Russian forces now surround Sloviansk on three fronts, with…
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