{"id":199481,"date":"2022-07-18T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/syevyerodonetsk-tse-lyudy"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:33:56","slug":"syevyerodonetsk-tse-lyudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/syevyerodonetsk-tse-lyudy","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine is people. Severodonetsk is people. Houses cannot be returned, but WE remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWar is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as 1935, the prominent American Ernest Hemingway, in an article on the inevitability of a new world war, described modern Russia and what motivated its regime to aggression against Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, he will report the Spanish Civil War, and his example will once again prove that no one can surpass a journalist in describing the history of modern wars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is also true of journalists from the east of Ukraine. Having gained experience in covering the war since 2014, they try to be in the center of events, and leave their professional place only when there is an immediate threat to life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

War began in 2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Serhiy Okishev is a journalist from Severodonetsk, Luhansk region. In recent years, he worked as a TV presenter and newsman on the city\u2019s leading channels. With the beginning of the all-out Russian invasion, his life, like that of many Ukrainians, changed dramatically. Serhiy took his family to the Dnipropetrovsk region, and continues to work as a war correspondent, only now on the Priamiy TV channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUntil February 24, 2022, before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was a managing editor and also a war correspondent on a local TV channel in Severodonetsk,\u201d Serhiy says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He shows archival photos and talks about how he visited boys in the trenches in the Luhansk region, how he underwent special training and about his experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was also a newsman then – I coordinated the work of local journalists, edited their stories. I went personally to shoot my stories, to the front line in particular. I also hosted evening analytical programs with experts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n