Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the eastern Donetsk region are also fighting personal battles as the front line moves closer.
FILE Pokrovsk mayor Ruslan Trebushkin, throws dirt on the coffin of 40-year-old Volodymyr Miroshnychenko who was killed on the frontlines of Marinka, after his funeral procession, in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 15, 2022. Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the besieged eastern Donetsk region are bracing themselves for the possibility that they will have to evacuate.
He must be ready when the military orders the remaining residents to leave, and as mayor he would be among the last to go. The uncertainty is unnerving: The upheaval could happen in"a week, a month, two months, depending on the front line movement,” he says. Yet, he is calm. “I am 61, and they say you cannot plant old trees somewhere else,” she says. “I belong here, and so do many other people. We believe that Ukraine is ours, and we are going to die here.”
“I would like a peaceful sky over our heads,” he says before piling back into the van to return to the front. “That’s it.”
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