(19 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kostantynivka, Ukraine – 19 August 2024
1. Various of volunteers transporting elderly disabled man from hospital to car
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Selydove, Ukraine – 19 August 2024
2. Various of volunteers helping Tetiana Myronenko and her husband move to evacuation car
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Tetiana Myronenko, local resident:
"The situation is difficult, very difficult. And it’s gotten especially bad over the past week-week and a half. It became more difficult: there are constant explosions. During the night it’s sometimes quiet, but sometimes extremely loud. A lot of destruction around us, so it becomes more and more frightening to stay."
4. Tracking shot of road as seen from inside moving car
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Pokrovsk, Ukraine – 19 August 2024
5. Locals waiting for evacuation
6. Family near bus
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalya Ivaniuk, local resident:
"It’s extremely frightening, impossible to sleep at night. They’re (drones) in the air all the time. Today when we were leaving, there were hits and interceptions in the air – it was terrifying. We barely got out."
8. Evacuees in bus
9. Various of evacuees at train station
10. Various of train leaving
STORYLINE:
Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases fled Monday from Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army was bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Local authorities said Russian forces were advancing so quickly that families were under orders to leave the city and other nearby towns and villages starting Tuesday.
Around 53,000 people still live in Pokrovsk, officials said, and some of them decided to get out immediately.
People of all ages boarded trains and buses with the belongings they could carry.
Some wept as they waited to depart.
Soldiers helped the elderly with their bags, and volunteers helped people with disabilities.
Rail workers wore bulletproof vests.
Natalya Ivaniuk said the noise of explosions from Russian bombardments filled the air while she and her daughters, age 7 and 9, fled their home in the nearby village of Myrnohrad, which is less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the front line.
“It was terrifying,” she told The Associated Press.
“We barely got out.”
Pokrovsk is one of Ukraine’s main defensive strongholds and a key logistics hub in the Donetsk region.
Its capture would compromise Ukraine’s defensive abilities and supply routes and would bring Russia closer to its stated aim of capturing the entire Donetsk region.
AP video shot by Alex Babenko
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