Sky correspondent Mark Stone gives an eyewitness account from the hard-hit Donbas region in eastern Ukraine where shelling and fighting continues.
And so the drive, at speed, was back to their makeshift base, and a makeshift bomb shelter at a location they didn't want us to reveal.
But it's more than the Russian shells. They look for saboteurs who are in this town and are believed to be sending images of potential targets to the Russian forces on the other side.Pokrovsk is now the closest place from where people can get a train out The train station is in the centre of a city that now only has half its population. The rest have left."It was horrible. People were lying without hands and legs. Everyone was crying for help. We were trying to bandage them," one of the colonel's even younger officers told me.There are moments to be thankful though. We visited a kindergarten that was hit. But the children were not inside at the time.Our journey took us north out of Kramatorsk.
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