For weeks, it was still cold and rainy. It has been hot for the past few days and Severodonetsk has not had a single drop of rain. But the bombs, these, keep falling from the sky. This has been the case since February 28, when the attacks began on this city of Lugansk, in Donbass, in eastern Ukraine. The inhabitants migrated to cellars and underground shelters, beginning to live underground. As Russia focused all its efforts on the region in recent weeks, most fled the city as the artillery barrage intensified. There were once around 100,000; now there will be no more than 10,000 people still living here. And the bombs keep falling, at all hours.
There are practically no international journalists in Severodonetsk anymore, and reports on the situation of those who still survive there are mainly provided by Sergiy Haidai, the regional governor of Lugansk, who changes shelters every night. He himself confessed, in an interview granted to a journalist from El País, that he was in the nearby town of Bajmut, in the second half of May. At the time, Haidai said he was approached by the Russians to switch sides and collaborate with the “new administration” of the city when it was finally taken over. Rejected, guaranteed.
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Source: Observadora
