"Conflicto en Donetsk: La guerra en Ucrania continúa sin una solución a la vista"

Los aliados de Ucrania están implementando diversas estrategias para poner fin a la guerra en las opulentas salas de palacios, a miles de kilómetros del frente. En Donetsk, en localidades embarradas y heladas como Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, Velyka Novolsika o Chasiv Yar, donde Rusia acosa a las tropas ucranianas en las batallas más intensas de este final de año, tanto civiles como soldados no vislumbran un cese del conflicto. Aterrados y agotados, ambos anhelan que todo concluya de inmediato, pero desconfían profundamente de Moscú. Cualquier alto el fuego, advierten, permitirá al enemigo reponerse, reabastecerse y regresar con mayor fuerza en su objetivo de apoderarse del país en su totalidad.

The situation is critical at these points on the eastern front, where Russia is advancing at its fastest pace since the start of the invasion in February 2022. The Kremlin’s forces are just a few miles from Pokrovsk, a key logistics center for the Ukrainian army in Donetsk. The “heaviest fighting” of recent months is taking place there, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said last week. He reported that the Russians are sustaining about 400 casualties a day, including dead and wounded, but did not give details about Ukrainian losses.

There are still about 11,000 people left in Pokrovsk, of the 60,000 inhabitants who lived there before the war. Marina Volodimira, 28, was evacuated last Wednesday after spending several days without electricity, water, or gas. A day later, with terror and cold still in her body, she describes the constant attacks, the windows of her house smashed, the city without supplies, and the rockets flying over her head if she dared to leave the house.