to get around the Donetsk along the entire frontline, from Mariupol to svyatohirsk – need to overcome an average of seven to eight checkpoints of the army and the National guard, who in some places will be reinforced with groups of physicians with thermometers at the ready. It’s hard, clear and long.
In Ukraine, on may 11, everywhere except in Lviv region, introduced the concept of “adaptive quarantine”. That is, running from 1 may to markets and grocery stores were added hairdresser outdoor areas in cafes, dentists and lawyers with notaries.
But the Donbas retains all its military features of the contact line is officially closed until may 22, rail and bus between the cities, the system of checkpoints on the Ukraine-controlled part of something which is reinforced by police and medical posts. And in some places next to the men with guns were military from his mouth biological, chemical and radiation protection – these in hand sprayers garden for the Colorado potato beetle, next to automobile tanks with disinfectants. These companies have each team and their composition, interestingly, in addition to “disinfectants” there are anti-tank units.
Map of infection COVID-19 does not coincide with medical checkpoints. Most infected in Mariupol and surrounded by posts of Pokrovsk (renamed Krasnoarmeysk), the most controversial is the city of Sviatohirsk with its Orthodox monastery, where loud and crowded celebrated Easter – generally without medical posts and ill.
In Svyatogorsk at the weekend found the first woman with COVID-19 – she came from Russia, after which it was tested. So you made an analysis of the coronavirus, should be different – to visit recently in Italy or Russia, or to be in contact with the previously identified patients. The only reason more than 30% were infected in the same Donetsk region – health care providers. The majority of one hospital – regional in Mariupol.
the rest of the territory in “the coronavirus” is not a lot of faith, and once everyone is trying to survive. “We do not accept credit cards, somehow informally, the fourth day of work at your own risk!” – tells me the woman with the tired eyes on the edge of the victim during the war of 2014 places near Slavyansk – village Semenovka. She sells garden figurines – cheerful gnomes, hedgehogs, turtles. As a sales point using the old garage next to riddled with shrapnel by a fence and the same broken vending pavilion. “We’re in the sixth year to be built and move away from the experience can’t, and how there are people whose homes and are at the front line?!” she asks a visiting journalist.
want to decorate a garden at the house in these places is not so much about how Turistov in the near Svyatogorsk. Now in the Donbass railway, from the Slavic to Konstantinovka warp only one train with second-class cars – it is in the “trains” transporting workers with passes for the still operating factories.
To Svyatogorsk you can only get on my car. On the hill above the monastery near the monument to Bolshevik Artem one working at a kiosk where they sell local jam made from young spruce cones, and not more than a couple of dozen visitors at the same time.
“Came from Pokrovsk with family for the weekend, rented a hotel room for 600 UAH (about 1700 rubles – approx. “MK”) for four nature are left to relax?” – rhetorically asked my neighbor at the lookout. In close forest hid a wooden Hermitage for monks-hermits of the monastery, it is like in the fairy tales about Berendeevo Kingdom – wood, tightly surrounded by a wooden palisade. In front of him near the barrier guard in a peaked cap with a badge with the Ukrainian Trident and a paper mask is placed on the neck.
“my name is Vyacheslav, I do not work here – just obedience in the monastery is an employee I, the fourth year at the monastery, the sixth, near the war – says the guard at the small gatehouse. The monks here live in the gate, around the fence to walk, and the inside of the laity allowed twice a year – here at Easter, for example.”
Glory 57 years, he is a cabinetmaker, carpenter, carpenter and Jack of all trades – worked in Moscow, and the money was brought to his native Slavyansk. In 2014 the house was hit by a shell, one son and grandchildren and daughter-in-law went somewhere near Lugansk, now on the uncontrolled territory, the wife of the second son, near Kiev, the man rewrote the property for the neighbors and went to the monastery. He only met me the day at the Holy Dormition Lavra of the people, which, though incorrectly, but wore a mask.
“I stood in the protection for the Passover near the temple, we have these masks were many boxes, each was given away for free before the service – says Vyacheslav. – So then why in the temple they took off!”
Svyatogorsk Svyato-Uspenskaya Lavra is now one of the most controversial places in Ukraine. The local Abbot Metropolitan Arseny did not hide the service in the Church at Easter, and the whole country during the online broadcast saw a dense crowd of worshipers without masks. In Svyatogorsk frequent revealing stories of the crew of the Kiev TV, riding a string of journalists.
the Context is simple – in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra more than half of the brethren are infected with coronavirus, Pochayiv Lavra is forced closed on quarantine, as well as Kiev, and in Svyatogorsk, in the third remaining monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate are open service diversion! That’s just here in the Donbass, the meaning is different – region closed from the outside, inside sparsely populated and the road closed for passenger traffic, and the Abbey except for a couple of hundred monehow always live about three hundred fled from the war, the residents of Debaltsevo, Slavyansk and other long-suffering cities. The community of monks and laborers is maximally hidden from the world – that it made the crowd at the Easter video.
While the monastery is not officially infected. “Official” is because tests for coronavirus no one here yet nobody did. The monks do not go around the world, proven cases of contact with infected no infected themselves until may 10 in the town of Svyatogorsk was not there, and how to approach the monastery of the shrew – the power of ideas yet.
And the desire too – the war zone next, in the rear of the current Ukrainian army while everything seems calm, why once again “rock the boat” and to put pressure on though “Moscow”, but respected the Orthodox? And live.
