Special Envoy in Kramatorsk
They are a handful of four men sitting without saying much to each other behind one of the few establishments still open in Kramatorsk. The place is not very cheerful, with its tin box and its mismatched chairs where an old cat sleeps, but it is open and serves some alcohol, something that is now completely banned in this town, as in all of Ukraine-controlled Donbass. Indistinct civilian clothes are not enough to hide the parts of the uniform and the air of the soldiers. Their features are drawn with fatigue. Slowly, standing, they raise small, amazingly delicate glasses of vodka in memory of their fallen friends. Of them.
“We’ve just come back from a two-week battle. hell”Yuri said. These Ukrainian soldiers are not allowed to speak, so they are not giving their names or the exact place where they fought. “It’s a little point to the south Lucky which no one paid attention to before”details Staff Sergeant…
Source: Le Figaro
