– A part of this estate is considered a red zone, and another part a grey zone, and we can not understand how it is possible? Just walk four meters, and it’s already a grey zone, it’s ridiculous – says Svieta.

The woman is 55 years old and lives in building no. 11 at Słoneczna Street or the Słoneczne housing estate. All buildings are damaged, the difference is only the scale of destruction. In a four-storey block of flats, people live in 9 apartments. The same story is in other blocks of flats.

– Some stay in their apartments during the summer. In the winter they leave because it is too cold and they have no fuel or material to heat the apartments. Electricity is too expensive – says Svieta. – I did not leave even in 2014 when the shelling was very strong. We hid in a basement and had a stove on the street which we used quite often. Our house was also hit – the roof, the walls and the wardrobes full of clothes were all destroyed. Thank God the missile missed the TV. We were so impressed that we blessed ourselves. We bought the TV a year ago. We were lucky – Svieta smiles.

Now even the outskirts of Krasnohorivka are calm. There are water and electricity in the town. There is no gas, and it will not be in the coming years.

– It’s rather quiet lately. Shots can be heard only from a distance. But we are afraid that it will start again. Earlier, when they were shooting, we lived by the schedule. Even the food was prepared in a rush before they started shooting. And then we were sitting in the basement – she explains.

And so another woman came. She lives at number 4, but she doesn’t want to introduce herself.

– These bullets and missiles were aimed at us, not somewhere down there, not at someone else. That’s why I don’t understand, why the other side gets aid. Sometimes we get some bread – twice a month when the pastor brings it. And that’s all. Any other organisations? They don’t come here. They come to the town centre. And you know what people living in the centre say about us? “Let they shoot them there so that only nothing bad happened to our part of the city. Let they shoot the Słoneczne eastern estate!” – How can people say that, how is it possible to understand it? – she asks, getting emotional.

– That’s people nowadays. Everyone thinks only about themselves. And Słoneczne estate is sealed off from the rest of the town – adds Svieta.

Does anyone say that in the city centre? Certainly not the people whom we had talked to earlier.

– Well, what else could be said? Everything has been said for a long time. This land is cursed – Svieta’s neighbour ends the conversation.