"After three years of fighting we've got used to booms. They don't bother us any more, Alyona, a pensioner in a swimsuit, explained. She pointed to a concrete box beyond a row of wooden changing cabins and outdoor showers. If the bombs are close we've got a shelter, she said. Alyona and her friend waded into the shallows. A man selling grapes sat engrossed reading a book."
"Sloviansk's residents have lived with explosions since 2014, when Vladimir Putin first began his imperial campaign to conquer Ukraine. Recently the war has become harder to ignore. Earlier this month Russian kamikaze drones reached the M-03 highway, 2km [1.2 miles] outside the city for the first time. They have swooped on buses and cars. One person has been killed and 10 injured."
On a sunny afternoon people paddled, sunbathed and sold goods on a beach in frontline Sloviansk even as an artillery shell exploded nearby. Locals have adapted to explosions over three years and use concrete shelters and resilience to continue daily routines. Russian kamikaze drones recently reached the M-03 highway 2km outside the city, attacking buses and cars and causing casualties. Workers are hanging nets and installing electronic warfare systems to form an anti-drone corridor protecting a road that links four northern Donetsk cities. If Ukrainian forces lose the surrounding hilly belt, Russian troops could advance rapidly across the flat steppe toward Kharkiv and Kyiv.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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