![]() TAGLIANI: The shelter has, you know, food, bunk beds, clothing, the whole nine yards - and internet. They can recharge cellphones that have been dead for months due to lack of electricity to let family know they're still alive. Why would I go to Kharkiv or Kramatorsk or Kyiv? I don't know anybody there.īEARDSLEY: That inspired this temporary shelter close to Bakhmut to give people the chance to sleep and think clearly. TAGLIANI: I have lived in this little village my entire life. He says when they try to get people to leave towns near the front line, they always say the same thing. He works with a group called Stay Safe Ukraine that's setting up the new shelter. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).īEARDSLEY: David Tagliani is an EMT from Seattle who's been in Ukraine since the start of the war. We speak sternly, focus on the here and now so they don't fall apart.ĭAVID TAGLIANI: (Non-English language spoken). But you can't cry and sympathize with them too much. LUBOV: (Through interpreter) Everyone comes here with his own story of misery and pain. Lubov says only those who've lived through this can help the new arrivals. She works at the shelter to forget her sorrows. Now she's renting an apartment in town with two friends. She shows me pictures on her cellphone of her 10 kittens and neat brick house she left behind last October and since destroyed by Russian artillery. She's afraid to give her last name lest the Russians come after her. Do you want tea?" asks 61-year-old Lubov. ![]() It's just been turned into a center for displaced civilians.īEARDSLEY: "Hello, sweeties. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports on one effort to help them get out.ĮLEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: We arrive at a kindergarten in the town of Kostyantynivka, about 18 miles from Bakhmut. ![]() But the Red Cross reports about 10,000 civilians are still there. More than eight months of continuous fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces has left the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in ruins. ![]()
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