Putin’s spies hand out poisoned sweets to children in an apocalyptic city in Ukraine, where locals live in sewage-smelling shelters
Unsuspecting children have been served poisoned sweets in an apocalyptic city in Ukraine ‘contaminated with Russian agents’.
Just 15 kilometers from the front line, sewage-smelling Liman is a stark example of how it all works Ukraine could have watched as the Russians advanced and took over.
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The city’s infrastructure, located in the Donetsk region, was destroyed after a four-month Russian occupation in 2022.
Most homes lacked basic amenities, and the bullet-riddled walls were covered in graffiti with words like “Russia“, “USSR” and “Russian world”.
Liman was liberated in October 2022 and was regularly targeted Vladimir Putin‘S army since.
People there now live in basements to protect themselves from Russian missiles, grenades and… drones and cook their food outside on makeshift stoves.
There are tons of firewood in piles next to each building.
Before the Russian occupation, more than 20,000 people lived in Liman; now only a few thousand are trying to survive.
During our visit, while we were handing out food, a seven-year-old girl came up to us, smiling and offering sweets – a heartwarming gesture.
“But don’t eat it,” said a volunteer who was with us.
‘The city is infested with Russian agents. There were cases of children bringing sweets to the checkpoints and random soldiers on the streets.
‘The sweets were poisoned. The children don’t know what they are doing. You can’t accept anything from people; you can’t even trust a little girl.”
The girl had appeared out of nowhere. She was not attended by anyone and she did not blend in with the general atmosphere of depressiondestruction, and Apocalypse.
We also met a family of three who lived in a basement the size of a closet.
Galina Viktorovna, 62, her daughter Irina, 30, and her granddaughter Evelina, 10, lived in a room of three square meters.
The distinctive smell of sewage and mold was almost unbearable.
Galina said: “Yes, it smells terrible, but it is warmer than an apartment here, and we are safe from the missiles.”
That’s not exactly true. Russians know that people live in basements and they specifically target that.
Russians had already hit the basement of the building next one door, probably with an air bomb, judging by the coffin.
But people in desperate situations have to believe in something and stick with it.
Galina continued: “We have nowhere to go. We didn’t have any problems until Russia caused them.’
People like this family are largely dependent on humanitarian aid.
We came to the city with the team of humanitarian volunteers.
While distributing humanitarian aid in Liman, we met Artyom.
Artyom, 52, still had his nice coat, but his eyes were watery and his face began to swell – a sign of alcohol abuse.
Artyom’s wife left Germany with their children at the beginning of the large-scale invasion. They don’t talk anymore.
She has a different name and a different family. She switched her first name from Tanya to Tina and is living a good life, we were told.
Her husband, who is still married to the Ukrainian lawis totally crushed.
He said: “I used to have a little one company. I had a few buses. When the Russians came, they took them away.
“My wife, whom I loved very much, found a husband in Germany a few months after arriving. She told me she wanted nothing to do with me because ‘I am poor now.’
‘What should I do? There is no work here. I can’t start the business; I have lost everything. My wife and my life.’
In October 2022, when the city was liberated, Ukrainian Police were tasked with searching for the bodies of civilians amid the destruction.
Mark Tkachenko, communications inspector of the Kramatorsk district police in the Donetsk region, said at the time that the city was in a “humanitarian crisis.”
He told AP: “Some people died in their homes, some people died on the streets, and the bodies are now being sent to experts for examination.
“For now we are looking for grave locations, and there are probably mass graves.”
The forests surrounding Liman were also decimated by fighting and the roads were lined with dozens of burnt-out vehicles.
Russian troops threatened to retake the city in the middle of last year; today they continue to do so goal his shattered community.
People are desperately trying to stay alive while under fire from Russian artillery, missiles and drones.
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