As Russia’s forces go through the city of Ukraine

As he is preparing to launch another rescue mission in the eastern front of Ukraine, 35 years Anton Yaremchuk appreciates the fog. He and his colleague Pylyp will hunt from the Russian drones. Its armored van will provide greater protection, but only with a point. Each trip could be the last.

In December, Shrapnel from a drone attack was ripped through an armored armored by his team, causing injuries but no deaths.

“We were lucky,” he noted.

Anton’s regular destination these days is the Pokrovsk industry city that says it is “night and day attack”.

They are closing Russian forces – now are less than 2 km (1.2 miles).

“In the last days we entered, there was hell,” Anton said to us. “There are still about 7,000 people. We will try to get people from that nightmare.”

He has done his entire Moscow scale invasion since he did it in February 2022.

With his country attack, the Ukraine filmmaker left his life and career in Berlin, he came home and created a little help, base UA base. Since then, he and his team have been affected by about 3,000 civilians, moving them from the previous lines to safer areas.

Pokrovsk was one of those places.

“It’s crazy,” says we go to the city, “that is, this was the safest city in the region and the biggest hospital. The evacuation train was left from Pokrovsk.”

When Russian forces take the city, Ukrainian military removal of the key supply and transportation site.

Ukraine has already lost sight from a decisive coal mining in the area – the only one that includes coal for its steel industry. Operations were interrupted last month due to Russian progress.

We will enter Anton for a trip to Pokrovsk. It has a tourniquet and a medical kit attached to his body armor. His highly visibility jacket slogan “let anyone left behind.”

Before starting, there is a warning. “When we park, take it out of vehicles and don’t be close,” Anton tells us, “as they are addressed.”

The closer we hear what we hear more explosives. The war has left his mark, draining the city of life. The streets are deserted, and the houses rose. Some buildings have been leveled. There is no smoke from the monkeys on the snow covered robls. We pass the parked car with a white flag.

But we find Olga, waiting for the road already, wrapped in the winter coat of Lilaka and the bell. This time is one of six people in the evacuation list.

He goes to block his house – although it moves fast 71 years. And then the van enters and doesn’t look back.

“I have been in this house for 65 years,” says Olga.

“It’s hard to leave everything behind it. But it’s no longer like hell. We thought at the beginning, but now we think the earth is shaking.

His children and grandchildren have already escaped the bombing. I think he will be able to return one day. “Who knows,” he replied, “But we hope.”

Along the way, Anton takes people on the street every time, and they are not a lot – asks them to go. The car stops that evacuation is free to explain brochures, including support, stay, stay and continuous payments, available in the west of Pavlohrad. But it’s hard to convince you.

“I have to be there,” a woman of the older said. “My son has died, and I have to be close to his grave.”

“I don’t think he wants that,” Anton says.

We exalt and pass the group of three who are collecting water. Anton shouts another warning. “There will be a street fight,” he said, unfortunately, I promise you that. I do this from the first day. It doesn’t matter everywhere. This is the final phase. “

One of the women is advancing to take a brochure. “God keeps you safe,” he said before his way.

Anton moves quickly to the address. When there is no response in a house, it rises above a large metal door for research. Hits. He shouts. He talks to a neighbor. Without the sign of the woman who expected evacuation, we drive.

I wonder what he expects for 2025, now the President Trump has returned to the White House and encourages peace talks.

“I left looking forward,” he noted. “No one knows what really will happen. Personally I don’t think although some kind of negotiation will start, they will soon bring a soon.”

He hopes to fight more than that if the lectures begin, as both sides will try to win the lever.

The last collection of the day is 75 years of Lyuba – his white hair under a cloth. His long life is compressed in a few plastic bags. It has bereft and giant in every explosion we hear.

“It’s been bad,” he tells me. “Bad. We were left alone. There is no authority. People are dying under the sky,” he said blinking upwards. “There is no gas, no water, no electricity”.

Lyuba helps the van, now full, with five elder evacuations – their memories and fears, and a black cat looks from a pet carrier. No one speaks.

In fact, this Anton is a popular photo, but still painful.

We first traveled with him In 2022 in the hot summer. Civilians were evacuating from another city city – Lysychansk – as Russian shells rain.

In the third winter war of Ukraine, and other volunteers – they are still trying to move the first lines and are trying to save anyone who can.

“It’s sincere every time I break this,” said “because they leave these innocent people behind. These are the tragedies of humans, and you can’t really get used to getting people to safe.”

It comes cost, and it is increasing.

Since we traveled to Pokrovsk, one of Anton’s teams entered under the fire from the Russian drone. A 28-year-old British volunteer lost an arm and a leg – saving civilians – but it is now stable in the hospital.

After the attack, Anton’s team interrupts the evacuations of Pokrovsk, and from other online sites.

An Ukrainian police unit called White Angels still makes rescue missions in the city. They tell us that they are “very careful and beware.

Inside the city, the restovers of the city and the rest of the negative homes, the rest of the residents – are mostly elderly bombs and artillery mercy, while Pokrovsk waits to fall.

Head of Wietske, Goktay Corals and Volodymyr Lozhko