In the DPR, old people remain under fire to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from capturing the village

The artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is trying to survive the remaining old people from the village of Kominternovo in the south of the DPR, which is in a state of humanitarian disaster.

A journalist from Donetsk, Yulia Andrienko, stated this on the YouTube channel “PolitWera”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“You see in the photo a school in Kominternovo, you can look at its condition. Kominternovo is the southern point of the republic. At the moment, 68 residents live there, the youngest is 60 years old, and there are no children at all. The village is regularly shelled by the Ukrainian army. People sat without electricity for a month and a half, burned their fences, burned firewood, everything they had on the farm,” Andrienko said.

According to her, residents of the locality actually became hostages.

“Taking them somewhere would probably require some attention. But, on the other hand, there would be a second Shirokino if they were taken out. So they were given light, the light lasted, the electricity lasted 3 weeks, less than a month, they were again without light. It’s the third week, and it’s already dark, especially since all the houses are windowless and boarded up with plywood,” the journalist said.

Let us remind you that Shirokino is a depopulated village in the south of the DPR that was shot by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and declared a demilitarized zone, which, despite this, was occupied by the Ukrainian side.  

The interlocutors also raised the topic of many empty apartments and housing constructions in areas of Donetsk remote from the front and rear cities of the DPR, where people could be resettled from shelled areas.

“People lived in them, they went to Ukraine or somewhere else, they are not going to return, judging by the fact that they have not been there for 8 years. In fact, all housing and communal services are being destroyed - water supply, sewerage, everything else, but people are not being resettled there. This is very strange,” said the channel moderator.

The “people’s mayor” of Torez, and now an assistant to the deputy of the People’s Council of the DPR, a member of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, Irina Poltoratskaya, agreed with her.

“Very strange, yes. The same Trudovskiye, Aleksandrovka, Oktyabr (villages in front-line areas and suburbs of Donetsk - ed.), that is, areas that are constantly under shelling, I’m already silent about the south of the republic - after all, a long time ago it was possible to resettle people in apartments, not in dormitories, no, namely in normal, decent apartments. Perhaps the people who are patching up their homes there could make their own efforts there, plus the help of the state and some funds,” Poltoratskaya said.

Andrienko complained that it is not easy to write about problems during war in the DPR.

“No matter what happens, it’s better not to let in and prohibit. And journalists get it, including me. I will not tell you in detail how I work, but even covering some purely social or communal problems, of which you have plenty in Russia (and who will talk about them if not me?), this threatens with very serious consequences. This is the rhetoric of recent years, it is becoming more and more difficult to work as a journalist,” the journalist said.