She, like hundreds of her fellow citizens, does not believe in the version that it is the traffic and the specific geographic location of the town that causes the air pollution and gas emissions. Neither the residents of the villages near Zmeyovo military test field can be convinced that the puffs of smoke coming out of the site are not from the destruction of old munitions. The Mayor of the village of Pastrovo – Veselin Vanev, says that in the recent years the villages in the region have become depopulated and most of the few people there suffer from diabetes.