A country, divided by war. Sixty two year old Alla Segeda lives in the village of  Krasnohorivka, a few kilometers outside the by separatist controlled city of  Donetsk. The frontline is five hundred meters away. The distance to the capitol Kiev is 700 kilometer. But that is just logistics. In Alla Segeda´s mind it is far more distant.”Our part of the village is abandoned. Cast away. Like it never existed. Kiev feels like another planet, above the clouds.”The seven year old war in Ukraine has, so far claimed 13 200 lives. And there is no peace in sight. The slow and deadly stalemate in the east continues. Story in Hufvudstadsbladet

A country, divided by war. 

Sixty two year old Alla Segeda lives in the village of  Krasnohorivka, a few kilometers outside the by separatist controlled city of  Donetsk. The frontline is five hundred meters away. The distance to the capitol Kiev is 700 kilometer. But that is just logistics. In Alla Segeda´s mind it is far more distant.

”Our part of the village is abandoned. Cast away. Like it never existed. Kiev feels like another planet, above the clouds.”

The seven year old war in Ukraine has, so far claimed 13 200 lives. And there is no peace in sight. The slow and deadly stalemate in the east continues. 

Story in Hufvudstadsbladet

Far away from the frontlines in the east the fruit trees are in full bloom in the village of Vasilikiv, 15 km south of the capital Kiev. Olena Lobova and her husband Igor Rjabets and five year old Tanja lives like any normal family should. No bomb shelters, no incoming fire. Same country, a world away.

Far away from the frontlines in the east the fruit trees are in full bloom in the village of Vasilikiv, 15 km south of the capital Kiev. Olena Lobova and her husband Igor Rjabets and five year old Tanja lives like any normal family should. No bomb shelters, no incoming fire.

Same country, a world away.