Russia: Donetsk residents on evacuation to Russia

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Donetsk residents who evacuated the self-proclaimed Donetsk People Republic (DPR) amid growing tensions found temporary accommodation in the gym hall of the Taganrog’s sports school, Sunday.

“The Ministry of Emergency Situations offered us to go to Nizhny Novgorod. We don’t want to go so far. We decided to go here. If we find an apartment here, in Taganrog, we will settle here. If not, we will spend the night for now here [at the school],” said Donetsk local.

The woman also emotionally shared her feelings on evacuation: “Of course, [it’s hard] emotionally. The children are still there, and the grandchildren, and the husband, and the apartment, and the household. We left everything. We left with a suitcase.”

On Friday, the heads of the self-proclaimed republics announced the mass evacuation from the DPR and LPR to Russia.

Kiev and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics have accused each other of ceasefire violations and shelling in recent days. The OSCE special monitoring mission report reports 591 breaches of the ceasefire regime in the DPR and 975 in the LPR on February 18th.

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SOT Valentina Alekseenko, evacuee from Donetsk (Russian): “The Ministry of Emergency Situations offered us to go to Nizhny Novgorod. We don’t want to go so far. We decided to go here. If we find an apartment here, in Taganrog, we will settle here. If not, we will spend the night for now here [at the school]. The conditions here are good. We were received very well. They fed us breakfast and lunch. And the bed, you see, they gave it to us. Everything is on a good level. The only thing is that when we left yesterday, there were a lot of people, 45 buses, overcrowded. They didn’t know where to put us. The driver kept getting new information. We had to be taken to Rostov, then to Taganrog, then to Kursk. And that’s endless. And then in the end we were left outside, and we slept at night in these buses.”

SOT Valentina Alekseenko, evacuee from Donetsk (Russian): “They bomb every day. Shelling from the outskirts, everywhere. We are afraid that 2014 will happen again, because you can see what the situation is.”
Journalist: “Is it hard to leave?”
Valentina Alekseenko: “Of course, [it’s hard] emotionally. The children are still there, and the grandchildren, and the husband, and the apartment, and the household. We left everything. We left with a suitcase.”

SOT Sergey Gundarev, sport school head (Russian): “Now they [the evacuees] are sent to the station, taken out by buses, to be placed on trains, which will take them to places of permanent residence in other regions.”

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