Ukraine: Eight years of war – “When will this madness finally end?”

Mariupol, Kiev The road, which is peppered with countless potholes, is still called Sovietskaya Ulitsa – Street of the Soviet Union. As if the former world power had never collapsed. The road is only five kilometers away from the front in Donbass, the part of Ukraine where the ceasefire that was actually negotiated with Russia is broken almost every day.

Viktor is standing on Sovetskaya Ulitsa, working on the engine of his “Gazelle”, his 19-year-old Russian delivery van. He is an ambulance driver at the nearby “Ilyich” Steel Plant in Mariupol on the Azov Sea. At the same time, he improves his wages of the equivalent of 504 euros net with delivery trips in his “Gazelle”. He was often shot at near the front.