“Krone” journalist Christoph Matzl was a few weeks ago in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr, in the immediate vicinity of the war zone. In the krone.tv interview he talks about his journey.
It was an immersion in countless dangerous situations in which he saw couples who, when the sirens sounded, hugged each other tightly, started to cry and fled together into the shelter.
Matzl: “Faith is a personal lifeline amid the horrors of war. A lot of people pray in the basement.” Russia has the great advantage of an endless reserve of personnel for the front, weapons are still being produced and delivered and the air sirens are blaring.
“You first receive a notification via SMA about an air raid that may take place soon and you flee to the air raid shelter. Staying there is stressful, no mobile phone passes through the wide steel doors that protect the basement from the outside.” Because the siren alarm signals have been activated more than 35,000 times so far, a process that is often repeated.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself has undergone a major change as a person: from the former sunny boy before the war to the current war hero. Matzl: “Right at the beginning of the war he said: I will stay here and we will defend ourselves.” In the meantime, however, a certain war fatigue is already palpable among the population. In addition, men eligible for military service are increasingly receiving incorrect certificates so that they do not have to enlist.
You can watch the entire interview in the video above.
Source: Krone
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