But as the heavy artillery and street fighting worsens in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk especially, they say they just can't hold on anymore.
Now they're being forced into a new life in the west of the country where most speak a language foreign to them, Ukrainian.We first meet 76-year-old Kateryna Bednenko in the back of an ambulance parked on the platform.She's had a stroke and is now immobile.He tells us this is the first time they've been outside since February.Valentyna Volochkova has found it hard to reach the stationShe just kept walking, two and a half kilometres, and took the first taxi out.
"Do I have any other choice? How do I keep my child there when all his classmates have already left?" she asks.She feels she has to do this, if not for herself, for her son.
ramsaysky Guys, guys, guys... calm down. The Russians won months ago. This war ends when Putin says it will end.
ramsaysky Blame the Puppet Ukrainian president and the NATO-EU pact that knowingly planned provoked and instigated this Crisis
ramsaysky Russian speakers going to relative safety in west Ukraine . . . . . Going amongst the people that have been killing them for the last 8 years yeah that sounds safe.
ramsaysky Loser filthy 🇷🇺 Orc army
ramsaysky But don’t try to come to Britain or you might end up a slave in Rwanda.