Ruslan Chubenko

“[After the power plant was hit] we were left without electricity and water because the pump stopped working. We walked around Luhansk Airport and found two water tanks. What to do with it? Should we boil it? What’s the point? So, you would just grab a cup, scoop some, see a carp swimming there, drink up. Look at the carp some more, if only there was a fishing rod… Well, you know. We drank the water as it was, no one got sick, no one even caught anything from that water. It was pitch black. The only good thing about it was that frogs don’t actually swim in dirty water. There were a few frogs there, so the water was clean, all right. Safe to drink.”