Residents of the "gray zone" in the Donbass are forced to survive in combat conditions, without housing, shops and livelihoods.

This writes "Today".

With the outbreak of hostilities in the village of Slavnoe, which is only 20 km from Donetsk, passenger buses have stopped walking, there are no shops here and there are already interruptions with mobile communication at the entrance.

Local residents complain, because of the curfew in the dark, it is problematic to call in even by him.

"You can not enter here until 10 pm - then they do not let us in. In Maryinka there is no such thing, there is no such thing in Krasnogorovka, but we have it! "They say.

Despite the fact that the village seemed doomed to complete extinction - there are still about 60 local residents. The youngest resident of the village of Artem is only four months old.

"Every house in our village has suffered from shelling - there is no such thing that it flew into some one, but in some there is not. For bread, and in general for all products, we go to the neighboring Novomikhailovka. More precisely, we order neighbors who have a car, and they bring us food. If it becomes bad, it's also faster to run to the neighbors, and they will be taken to the hospital. I'm not the only one with a child here. We have three children under three who were born in war. There is also a four-year-old, there is also a five-year-old kid. There is even a future mother, "- said the mother of the baby.

"Who we are and where we need?" He asks, "Why do not we leave, but where should we go?" I have already said many times that give me a normal house, give title documents - and I'll move with pleasure from here. At us the richest person is a person who receives a pension. And so there is no work. Thank God, at least they bring a pension, "- says one of the local residents.

Refugees from the village of Shirokino, which is near Mariupol, there is nowhere to go back: their village is almost completely destroyed and no one has lived there for more than two years. Most of the residents of Shirokintsy settled in Mariupol, a few people, mostly old people, sheltered one of the coastal boarding houses.

"The days go by, and there's no clearance. For a year and a half so, time seemed to stop. Nothing happens and does not change. Already we got used to the idea that we will not return home. We live more than ten people in the boarding house and we wait every day that we will be evicted. Home to go nowhere - houses are broken. Only in the roof of my house ten minutes. So there is no shelter, there is no future. We live on their tiny pensions, it's impossible to find work, "- said the former widow Alexander.

The same problems and in the village of Pavlopol - broken houses, and destroyed vegetable gardens. The worst thing is that the village suffocates from poor water supply, the old people are forced to buy drinking water from their tiny pensions.

As reported by the "Observer", previously there were photos and videos, as Russian "Cossacks" cynically shot a Ukrainian village in the Donbass.

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