"Does not cope with the flow of Ukrainians": what is happening on a single checkpoint between Ukraine and the Russian Federation (photo)

According to volunteers, citizens of Ukraine who try to leave the occupation have to expect a few days to expect on the Russian checkpoint in inhumane conditions. A humanitarian catastrophe emerged at the control checkpoint between Ukraine and the Russian Federation "Kolotilovka-Pokrovka". About it writes the Russian online edition of The Insider.

"The only direct border crossing Russia - the remaining Ukraine, does not cope with the flow of Ukrainians who want to return home from Russia and from the occupied territories," the journalists said. It is reported that Ukrainians have to wait a few days to cross the border from the Belgorod region. At the same time, people have nowhere to buy food and water, many are forced to spend the night outdoors because of lack of money for a hostel.

According to the authors of the article to get out of the territories occupied by the Russians, Ukrainians have to go to the Russian Federation first. You can get to Ukraine through the Baltic countries, but it is a long and costly way. Those who cannot afford to leave through third countries are forced to undergo "filtration" on the Russian checkpoint. Kolotilovka-Pokrovka is currently the only checkpoint between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

According to volunteers, women with children, the elderly and the disabled are mainly there. Volunteer Nadin Gayler said that recently, 200 people have exceeded the Ukrainians who are leaving Ukrainians. Many of those who are waiting have ended money and have nowhere to spend the night. Volunteers place people in hostels, but not everyone can help. Local hotels are crowded. "The summer woman was staying on the bench yesterday, by the morning the hole was covered," one of the carriers told reporters.

The passage of the border of the Russian Federation sometimes takes several hours. The gearbox is pedestrian, so people have to overcome about 3 kilometers in a gray zone. "On crutches, in wheelchairs with their bags, women with children. There is no asphalt, there is no normal walkway, many simply throws suitcases there because the wheels break," the volunteer said.

According to Nadine Gayler, volunteers urged local authorities to organize in the checkpoint the heated tent, distribution of hot food and increase the number of employees of the checkpoint. Some volunteers in Belgorod have been indignant with the fact that Ukrainians who do not want to live in the Russian Federation need to create some conditions. "According to their logic, people, on the contrary, want to get into the war zone, then complain to them that they are sitting there in the rain.