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Penduduk Donetsk, sebuah bandar bergolak di timur Ukraine, telah belajar
untuk mengharapkan yang paling teruk, jadi tempat pertama yang mereka pergi
untuk mencari orang yang tersayang jika mereka hilang adalah di rumah mayat.
Selepas serangan baru-baru ini, perjalanan suram adalah realiti baru bagi
bandar.
Lyuba, 70, telah datang untuk mencari suaminya, yang
pergi ke kedai dan tidak pernah kembali. Kedai ini adalah kawasan Kievsky, di
mana serangan maut sebuah sekolah dan bas berhenti berlaku pada hari Rabu.
Kawasan ini di selatan lapangan terbang yang telah melihat kemelut yang semakin
meningkat antara militia dan tentera Kiev.
"Saya dah memberitahu beliau untuk tidak pergi!
Dibunuh. . . Oleh bom . . . , "Lyuba mendapati suaminya, walaupun tidak
boleh agak percaya dia telah pun mati.
"Natasha?" Telefon perempuan tua anaknya menangis. "Dia sudah
mati. Saya di rumah mayat."
Suaminya, Nikolay berusia 76 tahun, adalah antara 13
orang awam yang terbunuh dalam serangan terbaru, menjadikan jumlah angka kematian di
rantau ini untuk lebih 1,400 orang.
Jumlah itu dijangka meningkat, ketua rumah mayat utama Donetsk itu Dmitry
Kalashnikov memberitahu RT.
‘I TOLD him Not to GO’
Heartbroken DONETSK Residents CHECK Morgues after SHELLING . . .
Residents of Donetsk, a restive city in eastern
Ukraine, have learnt to expect the worst, so the first place they go to look
for their loved ones if they disappear is the morgue. After recent shellings,
the grim trips are the new reality for the city.
Lyuba, 70, has come to look for her husband, who
went to the shop and never returned home. The shop is in the Kievsky district,
where the fatal shelling of a school and bus stop took place on Wednesday. The
area is just south of the airport which has been seeing an increasing standoff
between militias and Kiev troops.
“I told you not to go! Killed . . . By a bomb . . . ,” Lyuba found her
husband, though cannot quite believe he is dead.
“Natasha?” the old woman phones her daughter in tears. “He’s dead. I’m at
the morgue.”
Her husband, 76-year-old Nikolay, was among 13 civilians killed in the
latest shelling, bringing the total death toll in the region to over 1,400
people.
The number is set to rise, the head of Donetsk’s main morgue Dmitry
Kalashnikov told RT.
Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili
"20 mayat telah tiba di rumah mayat sejak 24
jam lalu. Antaranya ialah 11 orang awam, yg tlh dibunuh oleh letupan mortar
‘shell’. Saya dapati sukar utk memanggil ini gencatan senjata, "katanya.
"Minggu lepas terdapat banyak kematian orang awam, dan saya tidak
mengira tentera," tambah Kalashnikov.
Ia datang sebagai 'self-defense forces' melawan dengan tentera Ukraine ke atas lapangan terbang di bandar ini, dengan asap
hitam yg datang dari laman & bunyi meriam berat kedengaran.
Sebagai kebuntuan ini berterusan, pekerja Palang
Merah terbunuh dalam serangan meriam berhampiran pejabat Donetsk organisasi
pada hari Khamis. Rusia meng-gesa siasatan menyeluruh dan objektif ke dalam
perkara itu.
Ia datang pada latar belakang gencatan senjata yang
ditaja pada 5 September di Minsk. Pada hari Jumaat, EU berkata ia bimbang
bahawa gencatan senjata yang mungkin akan dilanggar dan dipanggil untuk
menghormati ianya.
"Kita bimbang gencatan senjata tlh dilanggar.
Kami bergantung kpd gencatan senjata untuk dihormati kerana ia adalah syarat
yang perlu membenarkan proses damai untuk bergerak ke hadapan, OSCE dan pekerja
Palang Merah bekerja di sana, "kata Soren Liborius, ketua jabatan maklumat
EU.
“Twenty bodies have arrived at the morgue over the past 24 hours. Among
them are 11 civilians, who were killed by shell explosions. I find it hard to
call this a ceasefire,” he said.
“Last week there were many civilian deaths, and I'm not even counting the
soldiers,” Kalashnikov added.
It comes as the self-defense forces fight with the Ukrainian army over
the city’s airport, with black smoke coming from the site and the sounds of
heavy artillery heard.
As the standoff continues, a Red Cross employee was
killed in artillery shelling near the Donetsk office of the organization on
Thursday. Russia is calling for a thorough and objective investigation into the
matter.
It comes on the backdrop of the ceasefire brokered
on September 5 in Minsk. On Friday, the EU said it is concerned that the truce
may get breached and called to respect it.
“We are worried that the truce has been breached. We
count on the truce to be respected because it is a necessary condition allowing
the peace process to move forward, the OSCE and the Red Cross employees to work
there,” Soren Liborius, the head of EU information department, said.
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