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(CNN)Hatchet in hand, 82-year-old Dato Vanishvili paces back and forth in the patchy snow; he says he’s a prisoner in his own front yard.
Trapped behind a barbed wire fence, the white-haired, elderly farmer hacks at the bare branches of his fruit trees, scavenging much needed fuel to ward off the biting cold of the Georgian winter.
“They don’t let me go,” he says, plaintively. “I’m stuck here. Where should I go? I don’t have food, bread, I don’t have anything. What should I do? Kill myself?”
To Georgians, Vanishvili is the desperate face of a frozen conflict, a victim of what some call the “creeping border” — and Georgia calls the “line of occupation.”
Merab Mekarishvili fears that, someday soon, the Russians will close in again.
“All the time we are waiting and we are afraid they will extend that border. We know what war means. It’s better to be like this than in war.”
Tamara Qoreli and her family, too, live in constant terror that the war will return.
“Every time a plane is flying over us, my small grandson is shouting, ‘Grandma, start the [car] engine quickly, the Russians are coming!”
“We live here under fear, we are scared and our nerves are breaking,” she says. “Nobody knows what will happen today or tomorrow.”
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