civilians flee in the face of Russian advance in Donbass

In Donbass (Ukraine), Russian forces advance and civilians flee, Thursday, April 28. In the northern part of Lyman (Ukraine), the closest to the fighting, the fire station is still functioning. “I was scared at first, but the people we’re going to rescue are even more scared than us.“, testifies one of the firefighters, while they intervene, despite the bombs, with bulletproof vests. A woman, fallen at home, receives an injection from the firefighters.

In the sky of the city, a Russian drone searches for Ukrainian artillery. On the ground, the fighting continues, as the sound of gunfire is heard. In two days, the Russian army covered four more kilometers. “The front line is about 2 km away and the Ukrainians blew up this bridge to try to slow the advance of the Russians, who have already taken villages around it“, explains the journalist Agnès Vahramian, special correspondent to Lyman.