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Children Under Bombings
Live from Ukraine
Bilopillia – Speeding through the security corridors built by the civil and military engineers of Sumy, which close the sky and the sides of the roads that connect the border communities to complicate enemy aerial reconnaissance and protect logistics and transfers like ours, we reach the center of Bilopillia. We are welcomed by its mayor, Yuri Zarko, who immediately updates us on the number of brave civilians left in the city: two thousand souls, compared to a pre-war population of about sixteen thousand.
Compared to when we recorded the video (visible on the YouTube channel and the website of this newspaper) in which we urged those who say they are tired of the war to come here to realize the desperate conditions in which the inhabitants of Bilopillia found themselves living and working even then, the situation today has even worsened.
Despite being in a relatively elevated position with respect to the enemy line of fire, Bilopillia pays for its proximity to the Kursk oblast’ from which the Russians bombard it relentlessly with explosives of various kinds and especially drones. Moving hastily through the streets of the center, we had to run for cover at least three or four times precisely because of their constant buzzing, while explosions were so close to thunder even in the bunker corridors. Ordinary madness of a war to…
