00:00Burnt-out cars, flattened apartments, and deserted streets.
00:06This is what remains for the handful of civilians who refused to leave the Ukrainian town of Druzhkivka,
00:13where Russian forces are closing in, and the sound of explosions is growing louder by the day.
00:20I'll either die here or die there. I know a bomb could come flying in and I'll die.
00:24I understand that perfectly well. I don't want anything. I'm not holding out any hope anymore.
00:31It used to be that something would be on fire once in a while, but now, look, everything's on fire.
00:37Something's burning every day. That house is destroyed.
00:40Druzhkivka sits on the road linking strategic towns and cities known as the Fortress Belt.
00:46Netting covers many roads here to protect civilians from drones.
00:50Russia is desperate to breach the string of urban settlements in its fight to seize the whole of the Donbass
00:56region.
00:58It looks like this isn't going to end well. The Russians will probably destroy everything.
01:03As the offensive continues, the destruction will only get worse, unless they manage to reach some kind of peaceful agreement.
01:10I'm not holding out any hope anymore. They all make promises. Nothing but promises.
01:15But nothing ever comes of them. You see what's going on.
01:19I can't sleep. I haven't been able to sleep at all for days now.
01:23Some guys took us in. Strangers. My home is gone. As if it never existed.
01:28There were so many good things. So much of everything.
01:31In one fell swoop, boom. It's as if nothing's left.
01:34My home is gone. My apartment is gone.
01:38Soldiers pass through the ruins while an unmanned ground vehicle speeds off on its next mission.
01:44A sign that this town is still being defended.
01:48But for the few remaining residents, there is little reassurance.
01:56It's heartbreaking. It makes me want to cry.
02:00I was born here. I grew up here. Well, I just don't know. Our city is gone.
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