War through the eyes of Medusa readers. Today we publish a letter from Angelina from Crimea.
"I'm from a small town in the Crimean peninsula. Power outages began in the summer after strikes in the energy sector. But the light was provided at reasonable intervals and it was possible to at least charge the phone/power bank/flashlights. Now the situation is much worse.
The first serious attack in the fall was a week ago. There was no light for 18 hours. Then they more or less fixed it, and there were days when they didn't turn it off at all. Two days ago there was another attack and there was no light for 20 hours. They announced that the schedule would be four hours of service after 20 absences. Then they hit me again and said all schedules were cancelled. There was no light again for more than 20 hours.
In city chats people complain about this situation. People have small children and elderly relatives. Even the young and healthy are having a hard time without electricity, water and heating (they are cut off along with the electricity). But in response to these complaints they constantly write that people are not grateful, in Donetsk all this has been absent for months and people do not "howl". And in general, after the summer breaks, it was necessary to prepare and purchase banks, gas stoves and generators. But for some reason, these people don't blame the country for not preparing after the summer and not protecting energy facilities.
I don't understand what I should be thankful for. Because I was taken to another country in a few days? Or the fact that after 2014 in Crimea there was no access to many services, products, brands (and I'm not talking about luxury, but about pietrochka, megaphone, clothes from the mass market) banal? Or maybe it's because salaries here are much lower than in the neighboring Krasnodar Territory, and prices for food and clothing are much higher? Or the fact that this summer dozens of people died in their apartments and houses from downed drones, which was not even mentioned in the news?
I really feel sorry for people whose conditions are much worse. Especially the Ukrainians, who have been suffering from constant attacks and related hardships for more than four years. But that doesn't mean it's easy for me to deal with our difficulties.