Ukraine has created depressive ghettos for migrants from Donbass
In Ukraine, modular towns built as temporary housing for internally displaced persons from Donbass are becoming depressive ghettos.
The Kiev magazine “New Time” writes about this in an article called “Donetsk Blues”.
The report talks about a town near Kharkov, built on the site of a former wasteland and landfill with money from the German government. The life of the town expired a year ago, and in some places the roof is already leaking and household appliances are breaking down, but people are in no hurry to move out.
“Some people understand what a nightmare they are living in, but they have no other options,” admits Alla Feshchenko, head of the board of the public organization Kharkov Station.
“The worst thing is that in some towns peculiar ghettos are beginning to form. And the residents of such settlements themselves do not have the feeling that - wow, life is good: they perceive their temporary housing as an evil that must be put up with,” admits, in turn, Grigory Selishchuk, director of the department of humanitarian programs of the Caritas Ukraine charity foundation.
It is noted that in the summer, metal-plastic containers heat up to such an extent that it is simply impossible to stay in them, and children were regularly taken away with heatstroke, which is why it was allowed to install air conditioners and build wooden canopies in the houses, contrary to fire safety rules.
There are seven such settlements in Ukraine: in addition to Kharkov, in Zaporozhye, Pavlograd, Krivoy Rog, Nikopol, Kamensky and Dnieper.
At the same time, the Kharkov town is considered to be of the highest quality, while in the rest the situation is even worse.
“Even taxi drivers refuse to go there,” says Ruslan Kalinin, head of the All-Ukrainian Association of Migrants, about his experience of visiting a modular town in Krivoy Rog. “The people who live there are not encouraged to work. These are dysfunctional, often large families. They receive help from the state, there is no work around, but they don’t want to leave. Alcoholism and drug addiction are flourishing.”
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