Все интервьированные - местные, командир - "Батя" Павел, шахтёр, снайпер "01" Ирина. "Батя" показывал корр. свой украинский паспорт и ламинированные карточки с городами, в к-рых он сражался, начиная со Славянска.
At only one point did Batya’s mood sour, when he asked how Americans could support Ukrainian troops who were doing such things to his people.
“Do we look like terrorists?” he asked. “Do we look like Russian soldiers?”
He reached into his shoulder bag and pulled out a Ukrainian passport — “See!” he shouted — and then a stack of laminated ID cards, one for each of the towns in which he has fought, beginning with Slovyansk last spring.
Debaltseve in the kettle is a glum place. “It’s just a horror living here,” said one woman in a crowd of mothers clutching children and packed bags made of plastic at a bus stop, waiting for a ride out.
Доверчивая укр. армия так готовилась к миру, что не укрепила свои позиции под Дебальцево и очнулась уже в котле:
The Ukrainian Army neglected to reinforce the road because the plan was to trust the cease-fire, he said.