Ilya Klymenko | Donetsk

“I want to return to the past”

I live in the town of Donetsk. I want to go back in time when the city was flourishing.

Mines were operating in the city of my dreams; there were many of my friends; it had many beautiful places. I would like Donetsk to become clean, the hostilities to end, people to return home. I wish they would build beautiful new houses, new schools and monuments. I wish the Donbass Arena to be restored, FC Shakhtar to become the champion of Ukraine. I wish Donetsk would become a clean and beautiful city.

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