Marion Gauthier 7:58 p.m., January 29, 2022

Near Kiev, the inhabitants of Kharkiv cannot believe it.

The threat of a Russian invasion still seems unlikely and yet.

Many are preparing for the possibility of having to pack their bags in the event of an invasion by troops from a neighboring country.

Report in the heart of the city 40km from the Russian border.

REPORTING

Kharkiv is closer to the border than Kiev, but doesn't seem more worried about the movements of its bad neighbor, as Giorgi calls it.

More than 100,000 Russians already gathered last April at the gates of Ukraine.

This family man is incredulous about the possibility of an invasion, but he is prepared. 

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Giorgi says: "They had already packed an emergency suitcase in 2014 and I can quickly pack my clothes and leave. There is anger and anxiety. A whole range of negative emotions, but we are used to this. I believe I should make it long enough to see this country in peace." 

Buried memories of the beginnings of the war in 2014

On one square is a blue and yellow tent in the colors of Ukraine, which recalls the beginnings of the war in 2014 with the pro-Russians in the nearby Donbass.

Collections were then organized here and it is now a place of memory.

There, there is a police officer.

She comes from the Lugansk region and she is one of the very many displaced by this conflict.

She doesn't want to believe in a repeat of history.

"I hope nothing will happen here", laments the policewoman at the microphone of Europe 1. "I saw the fighting in my city, the one where I was born and where I lived, it is occupied for seven years now. There's nothing good there. People still live there, but it's not a life, it's survival."

Despite everything, the policewoman displays a coolness commensurate with the ordeals she went through to flee her native region.

The young woman assures that the recent tensions have not changed her daily life and that no particular instructions have been given to them.