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‘High time to leave’: Civilians flee Ukraine’s Pokrovsk as Russia advances
FRANCE 24 English
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8/23/2024
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00:00
Oleksandr has finally persuaded his mother to evacuate.
00:04
I've got two sons. One wanted me to leave, the other didn't.
00:19
Oleksandr himself is not leaving, yet.
00:22
My job is here, my home. There's still some kind of life here.
00:26
Shops are open, but we'll see how things develop.
00:29
Either they'll come to me or I'll come back to them. We're not going to separate.
00:34
Let's go.
00:35
Reluctant at first, residents of Bukrovsk are now leaving in their hundreds every day.
00:40
We took a long time to make up our minds.
00:43
What's the point of waiting if you know you're going to have to leave?
00:46
It's high time, absolutely.
00:50
I've been working on these evacuation trains for more than six months,
00:54
and today we've really got a lot of carriages.
00:57
So anyone can just show up and we'll take them to a safer place to live.
01:11
Meanwhile, Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region continues to dominate the news,
01:16
and life in Bukrovsk appears to go on.
01:19
I've got a job to do, so I'll be one of the last to leave.
01:23
Everyone here knows that the Russian army is just 10 kilometers away now,
01:27
and Ukrainian soldiers predict a long, hard fight for control of this crucial hub.
01:32
I'm leaving tomorrow or the day after. It's tough.
01:37
It's a hard decision to make, but my kid is 17. We've got to get out of here.
01:43
Bukrovsk has already been targeted by Russian strikes many times in the course of this war,
01:48
but now the city is fearing an onslaught of a whole different level of intensity,
01:53
like the ones that razed cities like Mariupol or Bakhmut almost to the ground.
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