"It is very scary": NYT told how teenagers in Slavyansk were experiencing

Journalists write that the Russians are trying to fire soldiers in Slavyansk, but very often kill civilians. Despite the fact that the fighting continues, there are many civilians left in Slavyansk, including children. The New York Times journalists spoke with Ukrainian teenagers to find out how they were experiencing war. It is reported that children have to walk past the soldiers every day and with firearms that go to the trenches.

They see military trucks and expect war that can also begin with the window. "I would like to have a regular life," 16-year-old Nikita told reporters. According to him, he and his friends know the city very well. The teenagers have studied him well, but now it is not fun. He has not gone to school for over a year. His mother works in Ukrzaliznytsia and raises his son one. Nikita hopes that the war will end at a time when she finishes her training next year.

Nikita said that his friends were talking about war, discussing music or cinema more often. Some teenagers try to carry the war with humor, making fun of everything around. However, when the explosions are heard on the streets, they fall down to hide from the fragments of the break. The publication noted that the Russians were trying to fire soldiers who are in Slavyansk, but almost every time they kill civilians. "It's very scary," said 15-year-old Christina.

16-year-old Danilo said he had to be positive. According to him, walking in the city and listening to explosions for him and his friends "typically". "What else can we cry?" Danilo said. According to him, after several months of practice, he was able to calculate with great accuracy the distance to the explosion. 14-year-old Sonia, whose mother owns a beauty salon in the city, said he was bored The other day preceding the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

I spanned and started stopping the passing cars, crying and asking me to take me back to the city center. In principle, if a lot of bombs falls, then it is scary, and if only one falls, then nothing happens, "she said. Recall that on May 5, the Armed Forces struck C-300 rockets on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Russian invaders fired industrial invaders enterprises. In Donetsk Ova stated that the enemy wanted to turn the region into a burned land.