"There is a war for power, for money, understand?"

Anton Romanov, 25 years old, teacher, choreographer

I am from Gorlovka, this is the Donetsk region. He worked at the school as an organizing teacher, choreographer. He was engaged in ballroom dancing in a folk ensemble. At the weekend he worked as a leading at a night club, worked as a dancer in a show ballet. I meet a girl, my dance partner. In short, life was seething.

The situation slowly worsened. At first they fired my mother, because there was nothing to pay a salary. She went to Moscow to her brother, and I stayed in Gorlovka. Then shelling began, introduced a commandant hour from eight in the evening, began to periodically turn off the water or light, robberies began in the city. Every morning he woke up four to five from the sounds of low flying aircraft that fired at checkpoints. He fell asleep with fear, reading prayers to wake up tomorrow and see his relatives alive, the house is safe and sound.

On June 23, I went on vacation and, together with my girlfriend, went to work as a choreographer in a children's camp in Sevastopol. I hoped that everything would end, in August I would return home and go to work. But it wasn’t there. While they were in the camp, it turned out sometimes to forget that at home, in Gorlovka, a war. Thoughts climbed into my head that the summer would end, the camp will end - and what's next? It simply did not become a normal life. There were so many plans, so many ideas. And now I seem to sleep, and when I wake up, everything will be, as before, good.

I did not want such a visit: the capital is still Moscow. There are no place for weak people!

I did not hesitate to leave for a long time. He arrived from the camp and was on September 11 in Moscow. With summer luggage, almost without money, without faith in something good. I did not want such a visit: the capital is still Moscow. There are no place for weak people! It’s good that there are mom and relatives, there is some help, I live with my uncle, I am looking for work. In general, people, when they find out that I am from Ukraine, are different. Someone is not like that, someone does not like humor. In short, you can’t please everyone.

When he crossed the border, he did not receive any refugee status and the like, he simply issued a migration and registration to the address. But without work permission is difficult. I work where I have to, then at the exhibition, then the animator, at a construction site, distributed all sorts of advertisements. Here are my friends, by the way, also from Gorlovka, wash the dishes in the cafe, spin as they can. Of course, I would like to work in a specialty, but I need a lot of documents, and they are made for a long time and expensive, I still do not have that kind of money.

Of course, I try to follow the situation in Ukraine. In particular, I read the Gorlovsky news on the site 06242 . True, nothing good. All the media illuminate differently, you do not know who to believe. Therefore, I first read the news, then I call up with those who stayed at home, and make a sample picture. If in general, say, then a mess.

I often communicate with relatives in Ukraine, literally talked today. They support me, they perfectly understand that there is nothing to do at home. Father is categorically against us to come back. He himself stayed with his mother in Gorlovka.

Documents are made for a long time and expensive, I still do not have that kind of money.

I can’t say anything about the DPR, LPR, the EU, we, ordinary people, do not solve anything. There is a war for power, for money, understand? Where do we, ordinary people, can know where and how it will be better for us? They decide everything upstairs. So we lived normally, everyone was not bad for everyone, things got better. Why did you have to change something? I am for peace around the world and I believe that it is necessary to maintain friendly relations with everyone, namely with their neighbors, and not with another house.

I have no thoughts about the conflict resolution. I am not a politician. This is the same as sitting on the stands on football and clever that he ran in the wrong place, but he had to be faster, but at that moment I would even score. Or grandmas on the bench can tell, but I do not. I am an educator.

So far, it’s scary to go to their homeland. But I have no winter things, so I will have to hit it back and forth. While I plan to live and work here, I have long wanted to go to Moscow. But if there is a mess there, I will stay here. We, in Gorlovka, are bad with culture, is not paid little. In Moscow is another matter. I really want my girlfriend to come to me, I am very worried about her. She stayed with her mother in the Crimea, but this is another story. I myself am still on bird rights here.