In their baggy sweatshirts, backpacks looped over one shoulder, youths walk the streets of Sloviansk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine, for lack of anything else to do on a spring afternoon.
David, Daniil, Rostyslav and his girlfriend Kristina, Mykyta, and Denys hanging out at the football stadium in Slovyansk, Ukraine. — The New York Times When explosions echo through the streets, the teenagers fall to the ground for safety, lest a strike land close and send shrapnel whistling toward them.”Just don’t hit us!” they joke, covering their heads with their hands, said Kristina, 15, one of the teenagers on the stroll about town.Denys, nicknamed the Guitarist for his music skills, said he sometimes got up after a strike and did a little dance, to lighten the mood.
But Mykyta also said he has affection for the city, even after living through the months of war. “There’s nothing here,” he said. “But I don’t want to leave.” The teenagers stopped at a favourite hangout, the steps of a shuttered movie theatre near a park where the lawn was pocked with shell craters. They gravitated to the empty bleachers of a football stadium, where no games are held lest a crowd form, inviting a more tragic outcome from a single rocket strike.
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