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In the Donbass, the news from the front indifferent to the irreducible retirees: the story of the special envoy of Figaro

2022-07-04T18:53:03.603Z


REPORT - Residents who have not fled are more worried about the economic crisis than the approaching fighting.


Special envoy to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk

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Lyssytchansk, a strategic lock in the Donbass, fell to Russian forces on Sunday, inflicting a military setback on Ukraine and offering a political victory to Vladimir Putin.

In a few weeks, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, further west, could experience the same fate.

But for the indomitable inhabitants who did not flee these two cities - sheltering 260,000 people before the war - the news went almost unnoticed.

On Monday, the cannon thundered intermittently.

Above all, July 4 is pension day for the many retirees forming the hard core of the population.

At 1 p.m., the Sloviansk post office is packed and Lena, 62, has been waiting at the counter for five hours for an employee to give her in cash the sum of 2,500 hryvnas (70 euros), the monthly fruit of forty years of work at a painter.

Oh my God, if it weren't for the war and these skyrocketing prices, everything would be fine, but…

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Source: lefigaro

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