Ukrainian teenager Mykhailo Anopa has suffered a night without sleep worrying for a full attack from Russia. Then he decided to do something about it.
The 15-year-old joined another boy from a family that was less fortunate to dig a trench for the army who presented in front of the eastern state and faced a separatist supported by Russia.
“When our father, the pastor, said there might be a shooting, Putin might attack, I started having a nightmare, because that’s what I would think before going to bed,” he said.
We dig ditches to help Ukrainian soldiers. Now, we strengthen it. It has been our responsibility,” he said proudly.
Ukraine has been trapped in conflict that exacerbates throughout the eastern part of Industrial which mostly speaks Russia since the pro-EU rebellion replaces the President supported by Moscow in 2014.
The war has claimed more than 14,000 lives and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.
It also damages the Ukrainian economy and remains a constant obstacle to the former aspiration of the Soviet Republic to enter the west fold.
Now Ukraine is afraid of Putin’s confrontation with the west of NATO’s expansion can cause an all-out invasion by more than 100,000 Russian troops ready across the border.
An fora belonging to the center for children from a damaged house supervised by Pentecost Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko.
The 53-year-old has just returned to the Ukrainian Front after a trip to the United States and was busy instructing his group of discipline and the right trench excavation technique.
Today, we will strengthen the basement,” Pastor said, after leading a group prayer.
We will buy some more gas cylinders, develop evacuation plans. Each of us has to prepare a small bag with clothes and documents,” he told the group.
Pro-west sentiment runs high in Mokhnenko class. The pastor’s office was decorated with Ukrainian flags and the US which was supported by empty artillery shells.
Mokhnenko himself wore home sandals and camouflage western style uniforms.
The situation is very serious,” he said seriously. “But we will be ready.”
The trench around the eastern village of Chervone, at the Azov coastal Sea, was first excavated during a much smaller military increase in November 2018.
Then, a Russian warship shot and intercepted Ukrainian ships who had tried to pass from the Ukrainian Black Sea Port from Odessa to the Azov Sea.
But the Antekasi Kremlin from the Krimea Ukrainian region in a few weeks after the 2014 Revolution made such a dangerous trip.
