SVT’s reporter in Donetsk: People do not want to think about the future

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What has the war done to Ukraine?

– It is a disaster for the whole country and for the people. Then it varies a lot depending on where you are, says SVT’s foreign reporter Carl Fridh Kleberg who is in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

How do those you meet see the future?

– Many we talk to do not want to think about the future because these three months have been difficult enough while there is speculation about long, hard and even decisive battles in this region.

He describes how everyday life has become increasingly difficult for the inhabitants.

– People have fled and there is fate on the streets at the same time as the civilian population has experienced missile strikes and a Russian military that is gradually moving closer and closer.

SVT’s Russia correspondent Bert Sundström is on site in Russia’s capital Moscow.

How has Russia changed during these three months of war?

– Not so much on the surface. People are aware that what must not be called a war is actually going on and that makes people worried and a little confused. But it is not visible in the big cities that a war is going on.

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