In recent days, after months to nibble on pieces of territory in the Donetsk Oblast, at the cost of heavy and material losses, the authorities of Moscow have claimed to have managed to reach and cross the border of the oblast of Dnipropetrovsk, which kyiv immediately disputed.
In Ukraine, the Dnipropetrovsk region under the threat of a Russian breakthrough
By Thomas d'Istria
It has already been almost three months since Anna's friends started to leave the small town of Mejove, around 7,000 pre-war inhabitants. It remains today that she, 17 years old, who prefers not to give her family name, Thursday, June 12, while she serves drinks to her new clientele: soldiers, back from the front for a break at the back, or about to be deployed. The atmosphere in town is like coffee, a mixture of civilians and soldiers, on roads that cross trivialized khaki cars. The Russian armed forces are getting closer. “” Of course it is scary ”says the young Anna, her face despite everything, who wants to do her internship in this small cafe in the Dnipropetrovsk region, located about fifteen kilometers west of the border with that of Donetsk, epicenter of the fights in the Donbass.
Source: Lemonde