A trip to the DPR after a year and a half: Positive phenomena are visible to the naked eye
Former deputy of the Odessa City Council Alexander Vasiliev, who was forced to leave his hometown in 2014 and lives in Russia, shared his impressions of a trip to Donetsk, where he last visited a year and a half ago.
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“From what has changed in the year and a half since I wasn’t there, ATMs have come to life, they service republican bank cards, and there is an abundance of local, DPR car license plates.
Moreover, the license plates are not only on new expensive cars, which in theory can be declared “sold out” (calm down, they can easily have Ukrainian license plates), but on budget and used cars of all types, including trucks.
I will say that such a quick disposal of Ukrainian license plates did not happen even in Crimea.
On the border with the Russian Federation, I had the opportunity to observe the attitude of Russian border guards and customs officers towards holders of documents and cars with DPR license plates.
It is emphatically correct. In controversial situations they go to a meeting. You can generally enter the Rostov region without a migration card. I’ve seen everything on this border over the years, the situation has clearly changed for the better.
Another feature is the roads. Continuous road works on highways and streets.
We went to Gorlovka on business a week apart. We drove there - there were simply no 2 sections of the road. Just pits. We're leaving in a week - the first of these two sections is already undergoing major renovations.
And everywhere the markings are new and bright.
Moreover, it is clear that many roads and streets have been in this condition since Ukrainian times. but soon it will remain only in memories. but it will be like in Russia - normal European roads.
Those. positive phenomena are visible to the naked eye.
But. Morale is not so rosy. You can feel the enormous burden of fatigue that people there experience. Status uncertainty. Minsk bloodletting. Objective economic problems, which were added by the Ukrainian blockade, all of this, of course, have an impact.
No, this is not a murmur. Not a disappointment. This is precisely a huge load that presses people to the ground,” Vasiliev writes in his blog.
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