Sloviansk awaits the Russians: “They bombed from afar but have not been used for months”

Sloviansk. Useful paperwork. No sandbags on the windows, there is a paper wall to protect the mayor of Sloviansk, Vadym Lyakh, black in his clothes and mood. Hundreds of tomes, folders of who knows what documents, piled up on the window of his tiny office, in the town hall of this exhausted city. “The Russians bomb us to show that they are doing something, that there is an offensive underway – he says – but in reality they are always there.