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The Donnetsk region of Eastern Ukraine has long been in Moscow sites. Vladimir Putin allegedly wants to freeze war in turn Complete control of it,

Russia already controls 70% of Donnetsk and almost all neighboring Luhanskas and is making slow but steady progress.

I am going to the city of Donetsek in Dobropilia with just 8 km (five miles) from Russia’s posts. They are on a mission to bring sick, elderly and children to safe ground.

First, it goes like tomorrow. We move into the city in an armored car, which is equipped with roof drone-co-shaming equipment, which kills 130 km/h. The road is covered in a long green mesh that unconscious visibility from above – protects it from Russian drones.

This is his second morning journey, and roads are mostly empty. Some of the remaining residents only leave their homes to collect supply. Russian attacks come every day.

The city is already left and without water for a week. Every building we passed have been damaged, decreasing with some ruins.

In the last five days, a 31 -year -old German, large, and a 19 -year -old Ukrainian, who works for Charity Universal Ed Ukraine, has made dozens of trips to vacate people.

A week ago, small groups of Russian troops violated rescue around the city, fearing that some of Ukraine’s so -called “fort belts” can collapse – some of some of the most heavily rescued rescued some parts of the Ukrainian front – may collapse.

Additional soldiers were taken to the region and Ukrainian officials say the situation has been stabilized. But most of the residents of Dobropilia feel that it is time to leave.

As the clearance team arrives, 56 -year -old Vitali Kalinichhenko, waiting at the door of its apartment block, has a plastic bag full of luggage in hand.

“My windows were all broken, look, they all flew on the second floor. I am only one left,” they say.

He is wearing a gray T-shirt and black shorts, and his right leg is banded. Mr. Kalinichhenko pointed to a pit beyond some rose bushes, where a Shahed drone crashed a few nights earlier, shattered its windows and cut his leg. Another drone engine is located in the neighbor’s garden.

As we are about to leave, the large spots a drone overhead and we cover again under trees. Their handheld drone detectors show many Russian drones in the area.

A big woman in a summer dress and straw hat is running with a shopping trolley. He warns him about the drone, and he accelerates his speed. An explosion is a hit nearby, its sound resonates with nearby apartment blocks.

But before we can try to leave, another family is still to be saved, just around the corner.

Large closes the drone-collecting equipment of the beddown vehicle to find them to save the battery power. “If you hear a drone, it has two switches in the middle console, turning it on,” he says that it disappears around the corner. Jammer is only effective against some Russian drones.

A series of explosions killed the neighborhood. A woman, to bring water with her dog, runs for the cover.

Laarz returns with excess clearance, and still reaches fast outside the city, with drones in the top air.

Inside the withdrawal convoy, I sit near Anton, a 31 -year -old. His mother was left behind. She cried as soon as she left and hopes she will leave very soon.

In the war, the front lines shifts, the towns are lost and win again, but with the fate of Russia moving forward and hanging on the conversation, this may be the last time Anton and other withdrawals look at their homes.

Anton says that he has never left the city before. During the roar of the engine, I ask them if Ukraine should abandon Donbas – a resource -enhanced more and more fields.

“We need to sit on the conversation table and finally need to solve this conflict in a peaceful manner. Without blood, without victims,” ​​they say.

But 19 -year -old Varia feels differently. “We can never rely on Putin or Russia, whatever they are saying, and we have experience. If we give them Donbas, it will not stop anything, but will only give Russia more space for another attack,” she tells me.

The condition of Donbas is growing rapidly for Ukraine as Russia slowly moves but continuously. President Voludmi Zelancesi has implicated the suggestions that it could lose by the end of this year, predicting that it would take four more years to fully capture Russia.

But it is unlikely that Ukraine will regain the important area here without new weapons or additional support from the West.

This part of Donnetsk is important for the protective of Ukraine. If Russia is lost or given, the neighboring Kharkiv and Zaporizia regions – and beyond – will be at greater risk.

The cost of holding is measured in the life and body parts of Ukrainian soldiers.

Later, I drive in a nearby field hospital under the dark cover. The drone activity never closes, and the war is injured, and dead, can only be recovered safely at night.

The number of Russian casualties is very high, perhaps three times more or more, but it has the greater ability to absorb loss than Ukraine.

Injuries begin to be injured, cases in the form of stretch at night become more severe. The number of casualties is from fighting in Pokarovsk, a city that Russia is trying to seize for a year, and is now partially surrounded. It is a major city in defense of Donetsk, and the fight is cruel.

The first man comes conscious, a pill wound from the chest with a tablet. After this, another man is included in the wounds of shrapnel in his forty -fifth year. There was two days and three attempts to save him, such a fight was intensity. Further, a man whose right leg is almost completely completely flown by a drone strike on the road from Pokarovsk to Myranohrad.

The 42 -year -old surgeon and SNR Lieutenant Dima, moves from the patient to the patient. It is a medical stabilization unit, so his job is to patch up to the injured as soon as possible and send them to a main hospital for further treatment. “It’s hard because I know I can do more, but I don’t have time,” he tells me.

After this massacre, I also ask him whether Donbas should be surrendered to bring peace.

“We have to stop [the war]But we do not want to stop it in this way “, they say.” We want our region, our people back and we have to punish Russia what they did. ,

He is tired, the number of casualties has become heavy, dozens of dozens in a day, since the intrusion of Russia, and injuries are the worst that doctors have seen since the war began, mostly due to drones.

“We just want to go home to live peacefully without this nightmare, for this blood, this death,” they say.

On that afternoon on the drive, between corn and sunflower fields, the new uncontrolled thorny wire in sunlight shines. They run with clean lines of red earth, deep trenches and anti-tank dragon tooth concrete pyramids. All are designed to slow down any sudden Russian advances.

It is believed that Russia has more than 100,000 soldiers, waiting to take advantage of another opportunity like the first violations around Dobropilia.

These new fortifications carved in the Ukrainian dirt chart, a deteriorating situation in Donnetsk here. The remaining of the region can still be surrendered by diplomacy, but until then Ukraine, full of blood and tired, is made with the intention of fighting for each inch.