Victoria Shypko has a clock on the wall of her dining room in Yampil, eastern Ukraine, whose hands move backwards.
YAMPIK’, Ukraine – Outside, the sound of Ukrainian artillery fire echoes through the frozen valley — a constant reminder of the fight for control of the surrounding countryside.Now, locals fear a renewed Russian offensive from over the hills to the east as the warmer spring weather approaches.“If they don’t shoot, it’s all the same to me,” the 52-year-old former psychiatric nurse told AFP.
Shypko, who moved to Yampil in 2014 when Ukrainian forces first took back the village from pro-Russian separatists, is not keen to leave.But she also admitted: “I’m afraid to leave. If I left… people will take everything. The military will take over my house.”Shypko’s neighbour, Ramis, 42, arrives through the snow, pushing an ageing motorcycle sidecar with cardboard boxes of donated food.
Inside, apples, lemons, cabbage and bread are piled up in crates near the wood-fired boiler that keeps the house warm in the absence of a generator.
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