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Ukraine civilians flee advancing Russian troops in east
FRANCE 24 English
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8/22/2024
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00:00
Columns of smoke on the horizon and this constant noise remind Pokrovsk that war is close at hand
00:08
and will soon be on its doorstep.
00:12
I have cats. You have to go and get them.
00:17
Okay, taking my arm.
00:20
This woman and her friend have waited three days for the
00:22
volunteers to evacuate them after their building was bombed.
00:27
I can't take it anymore.
00:30
If I hadn't gone to yours, I would have died.
00:34
Shrapnel hit my sofa.
00:37
I don't know how we survived.
00:41
The whole neighbourhood was devastated by a hover bomb.
00:46
One strike too many for this resident.
00:49
Now without electricity, her phone battery dead,
00:52
she has lived the last few days cut off from the world.
00:56
I haven't eaten in several days now.
00:59
I need to get far away from this hellhole.
01:01
I don't want anything else anymore.
01:06
Just when she was explaining that she was waiting for the volunteers to come and get her,
01:10
a car arrived.
01:13
Look, it's my brother. He's here.
01:17
Her brother, worried not to have heard from her,
01:20
braved the danger to come and get her.
01:22
It's going to be okay. We're going to leave here.
01:25
Let's go and get your things. Don't worry.
01:30
The sense of relief was short-lived as fear soon returned.
01:34
Fear of the bombs.
01:37
Fear too that the Russians could come to occupy their neighbourhood.
01:43
Here we're less than 12 kilometres from the front line.
01:45
We've been waiting for a long time.
01:47
We've been waiting for a long time.
01:49
Here we're less than 12 kilometres from the front line.
01:51
The risk is that the Russians encircle the city.
01:54
This would be a disaster for Ukraine,
01:56
as Pokrovsk has served as a logistical base
01:58
for the Ukrainian army's Eastern Front throughout the war.
02:03
This taxi driver can see the Russians getting closer with every passing day.
02:08
Look over there. The Russians are coming from there.
02:11
They have taken control of the mine.
02:12
We can't access it anymore.
02:14
Dima was born in Pokrovsk.
02:15
He would never have imagined that his city could be taken.
02:18
But in the last two days, he's lost all hope.
02:22
That was just last night.
02:24
Before, we were taking in refugees.
02:26
Now we are the refugees.
02:29
On the roads, the exodus has begun.
02:31
But the evacuation will take time,
02:33
with 50,000 people still living in Pokrovsk.
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