Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford reports from Lysychansk in the Donbas, where Russian troops are closing in on the hilltop city.
So, inside the city, there are frantic attempts to try to persuade those still here to leave.
A string of humanitarian aid centres which were fully functioning just a few weeks ago, are now devastated. It looks very much like an attempt to try to starve the city into submission.There are undoubtedly many Russian sympathisers in Lysychansk. Their twin-city Severodonetsk is just over the other side of a bombed-out bridge - now under Russian control since the weekend and much of it is devastated. Lysychansk is on the brink of being next."Are you ready for evacuation?" the police ask one man walking the streets."I wasn't going to go," the man replies, He's worried about where he goes."What happens afterwards?" he asks the police. He's told to expect some intense street fighting.
The reply doesn't elicit a warm response. His female questioner replies:"Britain? Ah, you don't tell the truth. You don't write the truth." He just knows he's been left with very little to survive."We haven't had our pensions for five months now… Zelenskyy isn't paying us…Russia's not paying us." The citizens in this city are a mix of strong differing views with probably only one desire in common. Tatiana voices it to us:"When will it end? Tell me please? When will this war end? When? We have no strength at all. When will it end?"As other volunteers risk their lives to transport Lysychansk's residents out of the battlefield, a mother and her young son stand out to us. Their faces are creased with grief and shock.
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