Sviatohirsk was a tourist trail staple but is now just another place in the Donbas where people flee war.
In a picturesque resort town on the northern edge of Ukraine's Donbas region, people can hear the shelling coming closer. The Russians are just five miles to the north.
Just to the north is the city of Izyum where there is already fierce fighting. The residents who had fled Izyum told us they had been bombed day and night, been without running water and electricity for weeks. They also said there were bodies on the streets."Everyone is worried," the town's mayor, Vladimir, tells me.
One man proudly tells us he was trained by British troops before the latest war started. He's confident that Ukraine can win this war. The unit we saw look well trained and well equipped. Their automatic weapons were fitted with suppressors, which are silencers. An officer who agreed to be interviewed says his son, too, was trained - by US and British forces.The Ukrainian army now is better prepared than when separatists took over the Donbas in 2014
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