These photos capture the work of volunteers dedicated to bringing aid to and helping to evacuate civilians in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
We drive up to the one area where we had seen people gathered. They're clustered around the entrance to a first-floor shelter where mostly elderly folks are huddled between damp concrete blocks and piles of warm donated clothes. A group of women who seem to be in charge immediately ask us not to take photos — they say when the news crews come, things blow up. We don't argue. We ask how long they've been here and if they have everything they need. People are nervous and tired.
We fall in on the road out through Chasiv Yar grateful now for Vlad's breakneck pace. The sounds gradually recede and we breathe easier. In Bakhmut, it will only get louder as the rockets keep falling, taking with them homes and businesses and schools and churches and all the dreams that used to live in them.When we pull up to the hospital in Kramatorsk where Vlad is dropping off the evacuees, I see their eyes for the first time.
Vlad closes the doors but never stops moving. He immediately sets out through muddy streets, only slowing to cross giant puddles in craters left by shells, for a warehouse on the outskirts of town where volunteers have prepared pallets of packages of food for the cold and hungry people of Kostyantynivka, which sits just on the edge of Bakhmut. A town that, like so many others, is now in danger of falling as the Russians push hard west.
Vlad drove through Konstantinivka in the afternoon, delivering humanitarian aid to a series of locations with people in need in one of the closest Ukrainian held cities to the fighting in Bakhmut.Vlad drove through Konstantinivka in the afternoon, delivering humanitarian aid to a series of locations with people in need in one of the closest Ukrainian held cities to the fighting in Bakhmut.
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