Ukrainians flee Kharkiv as Russia advances | Frontline Dispatch

[Music] you can see uh signs of smoke and explosions in the background can also hear the [Music] AL we're driving up from carv in Northeast Ukraine towards the Russian border where there have been some attacks by Russian forces on villages in and around the Border particularly a town called V Chans and a few other settlements around there there's been quite a heavy fighting reported over the last 2 or 3 days we understand that the Russian plan is either to try and attack K from here and use this as a an opening assault or as a diversion to distract Ukrainian troops who are busy fighting in the donbas further south and east there's quite a bit of shelling going on around here and uh every so often you see patches of smoke coming from the woods where artillery is landed come here driving at like 70 80 M hour to avoid being targeted by artillery it's not a road to hang around on we're in the company of a group of volunteer rescue workers and some police who are fing people who want to leave of chance back towards [Music] [Music] car so we're in this old lady's house she's busy gathering her belongings so that she can leave as soon as possible um she's also trying to take her own car I think rather she just got going [Music] H can also hear the a evacuation team and now rescuing this lady with a dog quick as they can we're now leaving V Chans just earlier while there was a lot of shelling one of the police officers who was out of earshot was saying that there was a Russian drone could be heard buzzing somewhere in the area we're now in a town just south of V chance that's being used as a master point for evacuation in people who want to flee the town and the surrounding Villages up near V Chans um it feels fairly quiet here but you can hear a lot of artillery mainly outgoing Ukrainian artillery in the background and also on on the way here from KV as we drove up you can see freshly dug defenses that are clearly being dug in anticipation of a Russian push down here towards kak which is Ukraine's second biggest city

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Length: 3min 37sec (217 seconds)

Published: Sun May 12 2024