Donetsk is mastering the “alphabet of survival”, but people are still dying (PHOTO)
Donetsk, August 22 (Navigator, Mikael Chagalyan) – And again in Donetsk there is shelling, again shell explosions, again casualties. If residents of the city center are just getting used to the idea that their areas, previously inaccessible to shelling, are also becoming an arena of military operations, then on the outskirts everyone has already understood everything.
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Residents of the Petrovsky district, which suffers more than others, have already learned the ABCs of surviving under shelling. Here people walk the streets very quickly, trying to avoid open spaces; cars drive at a speed of at least 120 km per hour.
Speed will not save you from a projectile, people just instinctively want to quickly find themselves in at least some kind of shelter. Although this is precisely the problem: there are practically no places left that can be said to be safe here.
Shells fall and explode near residential buildings, schools, and kindergartens. Here, for example, is one of the schools that was hit by a shell.
There were no casualties here, the school is now empty, but theoretically up to 30 children could have died at once, in the first seconds.
And here is the bus stop. Here, unfortunately, several elderly people were waiting for a minibus. Two of them - pensioner grandmothers - cannot be helped; they died on the spot. Four received shrapnel wounds and are in serious condition.
Here, on Petrovka, people are already weaning themselves from electricity. It's light during the day, and there are candles in the evening. There is a constant problem with light, because not a day goes by without another substation being shelled. We see one of them.
Just a week ago it was repaired, and electricity was supplied to some neighborhoods, and residents now have electricity. However, this did not last long: another shelling, more damage, and tens of thousands of people again without electricity.
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