19/03/2023
In eastern Ukraine: "Something terrible is going to come here..." Waiting for the Russian steamroller, the controlled Ukrainian Donbass is emptying of its population.
Women, children, the elderly... There were hundreds this weekend and this beginning of the week waiting for their train at the pretty little station of Kramatorsk, with the pediment freshly painted in red and white.
"It's been like this since this weekend, with nearly 2,000 people a day boarding for the west, to Lviv or elsewhere," says Nasir, a humanitarian volunteer who came to help with the operation.
"It was two trains a day normally, but now there are four".
“The situation is bad. A lot of people have already left, the men are staying, our families are leaving”, grimaces Andreï, whose wife and two children are waiting quietly, luggage at their feet, under the awning of a fries stand to protect themselves. from the downpour.
Sofia, her pimple teenager, laughs nervously with three friends, also on the way out.
They took “a great infusion of valerian to relax”, Sofia admits “to be a little sad”.
