TORETSK, Ukraine: 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.
Oleksandr and Vladyslav, volunteers of the EastSOS non-government organisation, assist local resident Valentyna Sharonova, 88, and her daughter Anzhelika, 57, during their evacuation from the town of Toretsk, amid Russia 's attack on Ukraine , near a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine , on May 8, 2024.
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 20km away. Valentyna Sharonova, 88, and her daughter Anzhelika, 57, sit inside a train in the Pokrovsk town after they were evacuated by volunteers of the EastSOS non-government organisation from the frontline town of Toretsk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on May 8, 2024. Less than 12,000 people remain in the greater Toretsk area out of a pre-invasion population of at least 66,000, regional police said.
Reuters accompanied the group on a recent mission as it collected elderly and infirm residents from their homes and local hospitals, mostly from cities like Kostiantynivka which are further from the front line.
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