Matches, candles, washing powder. It is this kind of basic necessities that the Ukrainian populations isolated and trapped between the front lines lack. Going to neighboring towns to get supplies is a major risk, especially in Zaïcheve, in the Donetsk oblast, where the bombardments are incessant. It is to come to their aid, where non-governmental organizations cannot go, that the members of the Mozart battalion, founded by a former soldier in the American navy, Andrew Milburn, have committed themselves.
Some would like to leave their village, but cannot. Like this resident who watches over her 85-year-old mother, immobilized following two strokes, and who refuses to be evacuated. Others do not imagine leaving the life they have built and do not envisage a better future in other cities. They content themselves with thanking the paramilitaries of the Mozart battalion who provide them with enough to survive on a daily basis.