Russia’s advance in Ukraine’s Donbas is driving an exodus of residents who had resisted leaving earlier: 'I did not believe things would get so bad'
area, in the east of Ukraine. Each day at 4:30 p.m., a free evacuation train takes residents of bombed-out towns such as Avdiivka, Slovyansk and Raihorodok to the city of Dnipro, and others further west to Kyiv and Lviv.
Galina Ruvel, 86, left Slovyansk on Friday morning after living for five days without electricity or water in a city preparing for an imminent assault from, the focus of the most intense battle of the past two weeks. Ms. Ruvel said she regretted not leaving her town of Slovyansk in March, when her daughter and granddaughter left.
Aleksandr Andramanov, at the Pokrovsk railway station, is an activist who is driving people out of front-line towns in Donbas.