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It's 919 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine.

And Vitali, bad news from the front residents are now fleeing areas around the key strategic town of Prokrosk in Dombas,

as Russian forces continue to make gains in the east.

Let's hear from some of the residents.

I'm fleeing because I had a nervous breakdown.

It's impossible.

They bomb us day and night. And now their

drones are flying. I'm just scared.

We don't have a home, so we keep going to our relatives. I thought I would hold on to the last and

when I felt that the danger was getting closer I realized it was better to leave.

But you're always going to be here. to leave. I don't want to leave. We've only just bought this house. I'd hope that the

moment the Ukrainian army attacked Kursk, the pressure here would ease, but that did not happen.

Indeedly, evacuation continues from Baccrovsk, businesses are shutting down, banks are shutting this coming Monday, the head of the

Ukrainian military administration in the region.

Vadim Philashkin says that more than 30,000 people are still in the town, that's about half of its pre-war population.

Curfi has been extended to 20 hours a day from 3 in the afternoon till 11 in the morning the following day and the head of

the military administration keeps making calls on the residents to leave he says

evacuation saves lives. And the Russians are basically at the doorstep.

As far as we know, they are only nine kilometers away from the outskirts of Bachrovsk, that's five

and a half miles.

Oh, an a key strategic hub and all of it happening, despite as we heard from that resident,

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