Donbass stories - Spartak

Several tens of thousands of dead and wounded, over a million refugees. The civil war of the Donbass literally erased entire cities and villages from the map, staining with blood the soil of the European continent for the first time in the twenty-first century. A strange fate for two populations – the Russian and the Ukrainian – that until 1991 were part of the same nation, the USSR. Spartak is a village located 3km North of Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed republic with the same name; before the war there were about 5,000 inhabitants living there, today only 45. Since the beginning of the conflict, because of the fighting, about 210 people have died in Spartak while there is not an exact figure of the number of wounded. Almost all residents have fled either to Ukraine, some in Donetsk, some in Russia, while others have been relocated in dormitories run by the separatist government. Today Spartak seems a place that survived a nuclear holocaust in which the survivors move like shadows. Among the rub