The Rostov region continues to receive refugees from the LPR and DPR, but now there are significantly fewer of them than in the first days of the evacuation. Fleeing from shelling, people left their homes, families, plans for a happy future in the republics. The stories of refugees from Donbass are in a report from the Rostov region. Exactly a week has passed since Russia began accepting refugees from the LNR and the DNR. From February 18 to February 25, 115,000 refugees have already arrived in the Rostov region, and in recent days the number of arrivals has been steadily declining. The evacuation is expected to be completed over the weekend.

This trend is eloquently evidenced by the number of refugees at the main railway station of Rostov-on-Don - hardly a couple of dozen.

“There are few people now, of course. But in the early days we had an emergency, we could not cope, there was such a huge influx. Now there is absolutely no tension,

- says one of the volunteers working at the station, who now seem to be even more numerous than the refugees themselves.

He immediately warns that he does not give any comments to journalists, but nevertheless shares his personal impressions. And honestly she says that the first days of work with refugees were not at all rosy for her.

“In addition to the fact that there were a lot of people, there was also a lot of aggression. Many swore absolutely because of everything. But, to be honest, I can understand them, they have experienced this, they are very worried, any problem can provoke. But this is not so much. But it’s nice when they come up and thank us for the work and, in general, Russia for accepting, ”the girl admits.

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“There is no one there, only old people”

Rostov railway station is the first point where refugees from the republics under fire arrive. From here, some leave for other regions of Russia, and some wait to be taken to temporary accommodation centers (Tbbabo.nets). They all sit in the waiting room on the second floor - women, children, sometimes men. They don’t go far: at any moment they can start collecting a bus that takes them around the Tbbabo.net.

A thin woman tightly clutches a folder with documents in her hands and constantly looks at the floor. Next to her are two sons, about 16 and 12 years old. They arrived at night from Kirovsk, LPR.

The city is on the front lines and is constantly under fire, there are almost no people left there - everyone has left. Natalya herself decided to go to Russia when her husband was taken to the front.

“What are we supposed to do, stay under fire? There is no one there at all, only old people. Everyone else left, the men were taken away. In fact, I would have stayed, but my husband insisted. And even now you don’t have to think about yourself, but here, ”the woman nods towards the children.

They stay in Rostov for only a couple of days, and from here they leave to the father of their eldest son. They rejoice that Russia has given them shelter, but dream of returning home.

“Of course I want to go back home. We'll be back as soon as we calm down. But now ... It is not known when it will all end. Eight years to live like this in fear. The last few days have been very scary. It was even scary to sleep at night. It’s beyond words,” she says, with tears in her eyes.

“There were so many plans, and then bam!”

A six-year-old boy is running around the waiting room, playing with a small car. His father is watching him. Alexander, 35, arrived with a child from Donetsk at night. He is constantly around other refugees and casually starts a conversation with almost everyone. To the silent question of others “how did he get here?” answers right away.

“I had to take the child out of there, and we were alone, there was no mother, no one. Of course, they didn’t want to let me out, but somehow they managed to get through. And literally at every checkpoint they slowed me down and wanted to turn me around.

One time it almost got to the point that I was almost thrown off, but other people interceded, the driver.

So we got to the Russian border, where they told me that I was very lucky that I managed to get through, ”he says, at the same time trying to keep track of his son.

The escalation of the conflict destroyed his plans to resume normal life in his native Donetsk. Eight years ago he moved to the Moscow region, where his son was born. More recently, Alexander decided to return to his homeland in the hope that he would be able to build a new life there, he hoped that in the fall he would send the child to first grade. But in less than a few months, he realized that this was impossible: the conflict escalated, it was necessary to leave.

“The shooting doesn’t stop at all. Here you are walking through the market, and every ten seconds you hear shots. The son thought it was fireworks and asked why it was during the day. I had to somehow explain. With a child there is unrealistic.

There were so many plans, and then - bam! I took a lot of things with me, and some people grabbed small suitcases, documents and fled. The setting is terrible. We drove here at night, and here is silence. And there are explosions, all you hear is automatic bursts and bombs from morning to evening”,

he says.Now he hardly thinks about returning to his homeland: the average salary of the population in the DPR, according to him, is incomparable with prices. But at the same time, he hopes that "now Russia will put the republic on its feet."

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“In Ukraine, I am now on the blacklist”

In the half-empty bus that takes refugees to Tbbabo.nets, they are actively discussing the conditions in which they will live, trying to find out from the volunteers. They only answer that they do not know anything. But questions about the refrigerator, washing machine and kitchen do not subside.

One of the passengers on this bus is 56-year-old Kirill from the DPR. He came to Russia on his own, the family - a son and a daughter - remained in Kramatorsk, "under the Bandera", as the man himself puts it. He is traveling from Donbass with two shell shocks, he was commissioned. He volunteered for the militia back in 2014, in the early days of the conflict, and served for four years.

“If I were healthy, I would go to war now,” admits Kirill.

But now he has his own business, he paints cars. It was this source of income that the aggravated conflict took from him. Now he is in Russia and is already thinking about how he will look for work in auto repair shops. The topic of returning to the republic is difficult for him - he himself does not know what will happen next.

“I can’t return to Kramatorsk to my family because I fought against Ukraine. I started my service in intelligence, carried secret mail at the front. My family was registered with the Security Service of Ukraine. In Ukraine, I am now on the black list,” he concluded.

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