Sievierodonetsk after de-occupation

August 20, 2014, Sievierodonetsk (Siverskodonetsk).

A plot about life in the city a month after the de-occupation. A destroyed bridge with a checkpoint, graffiti “Luhansk Battalion-1”, archive footage from the day the city was liberated, locals meet Ukrainian soldiers, flowers and lamps near the portrait of the fallen Colonel Oleksandr Radievsky, Severodonetsk City Council, the aftermath of shelling, the Severodonetsk stele.

Comments: Sergiy Samarsky, a resident of the city, head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party in Sievierodonetsk (killed on November 2, 2017); Olena Hrynko, a resident of the city.

Reference: On July 22, 2014, Sievierodonetsk was liberated from pro-Russian militants. The liberation took place after fighting as part of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). The battle for Sievierodonetsk and the neighboring towns of Rubizhne and Lysychansk lasted from May to July 2014.