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REPORT. In Sloviansk, near the front line, the post office and the humanitarian workers act as public services for the inhabitants who have not been able to flee.
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From our special correspondent in Eastern Ukraine, Romain Sines
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HASSitting on a small stool, Lioudmila Petrovna waits patiently under the porch of her building. It has been three days since this little 83-year-old lady should have received her pension. His disability prevents him from traveling to the post office in Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine, to collect his savings. A woman holding a purple clutch introduces herself. “Hello, it’s La Poste for apartment number nine. The retiree gets up, smiles a line of golden teeth, hugs the postwoman and invites her to come upstairs.
The postwoman is called Victoria Nechayeva, she usually serves another district. She ensures the rounds of her colleague Larissa, who fled with her daughter to the west of the country. “The elderly are worried about not receiving their pe…
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