Russian Advances Drive Ukrainian Civilians From Pokrovsk, Eastern Towns
- By Current Time,
- Andriy Kuzakov and
- Will Tizard
Some of the remaining residents who had been holding out in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk have been evacuated as Russian troops close in. Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov spoke to civilians boarding trains bound for Dnipro on August 24 and to volunteers who scrambled to help evacuees into vans amid sporadic shelling.