EastSOS, a relief group, helps evacuate Ukrainian civilians from areas on the front lines of Russia's attack and take them to safer areas.
Anzhelika Sharonova and her 86-year-old mother held out in their battered eastern Ukrainian town for as long as they could before finally fleeing this week with just a few bags between them. Russian forces are steadily advancing north and south of Toretsk as they press on multiple parts of the eastern front, threatening to eventually envelop the former coal-mining town and others around it.
Bombs are falling near our building.' Toretsk has been on the front line of the war with Moscow-backed separatists since 2014, but the recent surge in fighting and a lack of basic services have made life virtually unlivable for Sharonova and her mother Valentyna, the two women said. They had mostly depended on deliveries of humanitarian aid to the hollowed-out town, where few stores remained open, and the nearest hospital was at least 20 km away.
Sharonova and her mother, who had endured two wartime winters in their apartment, said they were headed for a larger city in central Ukraine and do not expect to return. East SOS member Oleksandr Stasenko, speaking outside the train onto which he helped load the several residents the team evacuated that day, said it was difficult seeing frightened people. 'Emotions break through sometimes and you tear up,' he said. 'But you pull yourself together and help people.
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