German journalist: Survival mode in international Donetsk is over
“Still, there was something good in the war: it brought us back to earth,” Alexey, a waiter in a Donetsk cafe, tells Moritz Hartmann. The German journalist has been traveling to Donetsk since March 2014. He knows that previously a Donetsk worker with an average income could afford to buy a good car and vacation in Europe.
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Today the city is out of survival mode. Although explosions from the airport can be heard in the distance, there are still no military men in camouflage and with machine guns on the streets, festivals are held on the beach, and a cool young presenter at the Oplot station talks about good news: sports, art, performances. In general, the DPR government is doing everything to make the residents of the people’s republic feel like they are living well.
However, residents are still worried about the uncertainty of their future, the prospects of young people and the constant threat of shelling.
When a German journalist in a Berlin audience, during a story about Donetsk, was asked the question: who do Donetsk residents consider themselves to be, Russians or Ukrainians, he could not answer then. And only now I realized: not only the Donetsk and Luhansk residents, the whole of Eastern Ukraine considers this issue absolutely unimportant.
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