Bucha is preparing for reconstruction in a nightmare .. what if the Russians return ?!

Calm returned to Bucha. On the first Sunday in July, pedestrians were shopping, and women and men were chatting in front of a small market selling berries and cherries. Not far away, a couple with a stroller was rolling down the street, and a teenager was skating. At the beginning of July, traces of battles were still visible everywhere: broken windows and walls of houses shot through. Along Vokzalny Boulevard, which connects Bucha with Irbin, badly destroyed or damaged buildings, residential buildings, apartment buildings, shops and shopping centers abound. Leaders from a dozen countries and international organizations are currently meeting in Lugano, Switzerland, to chart out a “Marshall Plan” that would accelerate the multibillion-dollar recovery of Ukraine, whose borders lie just 100 kilometers to the north. fueled by statements by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin’s number one ally, who on Saturday blamed Ukrainians for the rocket attack on his country and threatened retaliation. “It’s terrible,” says 75-year-old Nadezhda Steninkova. “It is clear that now everything is fine, everything is calm, but we still have the fear that they will return, because they are not far away and continue to destroy cities and villages … We cannot feel safe. The Russians can come back at any moment.” “We go to bed not knowing if we will wake up tomorrow,” says 65-year-old pensioner Vera Semenyuk. “Everyone came back and started renovating the houses, in many cases putting in new windows,” she says. It would be terrible if the Russians returned and we would have to drop everything and leave.”