Even when people are able to flee towns under bombardment, a lack of financial support sends many back
vitlana and her son Danylo had been in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro for less then a day when a terrible realisation struck her: without money, the offer of work or a permanent place to stay they would have to return to their apartment in Sloviansk,and the sounds of Russian bombardment growing ever louder.
They had been told they would be given tokens on the train which they could exchange in Dnipro for relocation money – £60 for Svitlana and £120 for Danylo. But for some reason people on their carriage didn’t receive their tokens. Even when Ukrainians are able to flee towns under bombardment, a lack of money and financial support is sending many back.The next day they were given a lift back to Sloviansk, first from volunteers who dropped them in another town, Kramatorsk, and then from Ukrainian soldiers who picked them up from the side of the motorway.Over the last week and a half conditions in Sloviansk have worsened considerably.
Svitlana’s remaining neighbours – about a dozen out of several hundred – also blamed a combination of temporary accommodation elsewhere and a lack of work for not leaving. The frontline is now just 10 kilometres from Sloviansk, which is said to be the next big town in Russia’s sights. Since early July, the town has experienced days where the shelling has been constant, Svitlana said. On one occasion the market was hit. Footage of the immediate aftermath showed local people and soldiers pulling bodies from the burning stalls.
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