The 69-year-old is now taking counsel and getting ready to leave the city of Pokrovsk in east Ukraine, where he had firmly refused to go.
She sobs as she tells me, “When I hear a bang, my heart stops.” She has an antique push-button phone in her hand that is saved with emergency contacts.
Pokrovsk is located less than 8 km (4.9 miles) from the front line. The chief of the military administration in the city, Serhiy Dobryak, claims that in addition to using multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles to target the city, the Russians are also using guided bombs and artillery because the city is now within their weaponry’s range.
Observe what the Russians done to us. She sobs and says, “I am leaving everything behind after 30 years of working here.
Ms. Honcharenko is assisted by volunteers in boarding an evacuation bus. This station is now defunct.
Pokrovsk is a vital center for transportation. Russian soldiers will cut off one of the region’s primary supply channels if it falls. The front line will probably advance into Kramatorsk as a result, forcing Ukraine to withdraw from Chasiv Yar.
This would essentially mean that Ukraine would lose nearly the whole Donetsk area, which the Kremlin has been attempting to seize since the start of their invasion.
