The war in Ukraine – live like a fucking animal

In the Ukrainian town of Pakhmut in Donetsk, ten kilometers from the town of Solidar, there are still some residents who have remained in the city, which had a pre-war population of around 70,000.

Many of them cannot escape. Many of the wounded, the elderly, were in poor health or financial condition.

Some refuse to leave. Others gave up.

CNN Video report from the city where fighting is still in full swing.

Fighting reverberates through the city, and in the streets civilians walk trying to survive.

Evan is one of them. When CNN interviewed him, he was out collecting firewood. Without heat and electricity in the city, the cold can be deadly.

– People froze to death in their apartments, he tells the channel.

Build trenches

End of this week The Russians declared victory at the town of Solidar. The fighting has been going on for months and both sides have suffered heavy losses.

Ukrainian forces are still fighting in Solidar, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and in Bakhmut they are now preparing for the entry of Russian forces into the city.

Ukrainian soldiers build trenches in the city.

According to a CNN reporter, a local resident said that where shells once flew over their heads, there are now rifle shells.

This was the dramatic escape

– You don’t want to travel

In the report, CNN spoke with several local residents who had not fled the city. The reporter describes that they seem to have become almost immune to the sounds of war.

– it’s my country. Dmytro says: I don’t want to go

In the west of the city, a street market was set up where residents could obtain necessary goods, such as food. A local merchant said that his shop had been destroyed, so he would now have to sell his goods in the market.

However, not everyone can afford to buy food in the market. One of them is Sarhej.

– I live like a damned animal, he says in the report.

many soldiers

On Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that Russian forces carried out a series of missile attacks on the neighboring country on Saturday.

In the message, they claimed that all of the identified targets had been hit, and that the objective of the attack had been achieved.

– It can collapse at any time

At the same time, they claim, Russian forces advanced towards the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, which the Russians had been trying to capture for several months.

In his daily video address on Monday, Zelensky said decisions on military assistance should be taken faster, noting that Russia has many soldiers in the Donbass region, especially around the cities of Bakhmut and Solidar, but also in southern Ukraine. .

– We’ll see what Russia is preparing here, Zelensky said.