00:00In Ukraine's Donetsk region, hundreds of people have left their homes by evacuation trains
00:06in September.
00:08Most of them are from the Pokrovsk district, where the Russian armed forces are advancing
00:12and fighting is intensifying.
00:15Local authorities have issued a mandatory evacuation order, especially for families
00:20and children, but some were hesitant to leave their homes behind.
00:25It was boring at first, but then I got used to it.
00:28Then I started to think about it.
00:32To be honest, I wouldn't even leave the city.
00:35I don't want to go anywhere at all.
00:38Well, I have to, because it's very loud there.
00:41Pokrovsk residents were transported to Paflorad by bus before boarding trains to Kropyvnytskyi and Lviv.
00:48Pokrovsk has been a key Russian target for months.
00:51In August, Ukraine launched an incursion into the Russian Kursk region in an attempt
00:55to divert Russian troops from advancing there.
