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Taxis in Occupied Donbas: Drivers Speak About Rides Under Fire

In the early weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion, several Ukrainian cities in the south and east of the country were seized and occupied. Since then, Russian taxi drivers have been transporting soldiers and civilians from the "mainland" to and from the "new territories" — driving along bombed out roads, under drone and shell fire, and past military checkpoints to reach towns on the front line. This Insider's report reveals the dark reality of these trips — the premiums paid to drivers working in a warzone, the desire of some Russian soldiers to desert, and the demand for sex workers in areas of Russian military occupation. Watch this report in Russian:    • Такси в Донбассе: кто ездит, сколько платя...   Support The Insider’s work with donations: https://donate.theins.ru/en https://theins.press/en https://x.com/InsiderEng   / the_insider_english   00:00:00 When you drive through the outskirts, there are wrecked cars everywhere — blown-up, burned-out. 00:03:00 The city was completely destroyed. It was scary the first time — without navigation, without internet, not knowing the city. 00:06:00 Taxi drivers won’t go there even for 200,000 rubles — cars are burned there most often. 00:08:00 Drones were flying like planes over Sheremetyevo — just everywhere. You could just blow up. 00:10:00 A drone hit a car — it completely burned it. Luckily, the driver managed to jump out in time. 00:12:00 Ninety percent of passengers are military. Some are eager to get back, others just want it all to end. 00:15:00 He was chased by a drone around a store — until the drone got bored and flew off. 00:19:00 The “five-hundreds” write every day: “Take us out, get us out, get us out.” 00:23:00 Rates for sex workers are astronomical — around 20–25,000 per hour. 00:27:00 Popasna and Lisichansk are 70% destroyed. It’s not scary — it’s just sad.