People in eastern Donetsk have been asked to evacuate as towns fear the same fate as Avdiivka and Bakhmut
For the few residents remaining in Kurakhove, a city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region just seven miles from the frontlines, the worst-case scenario was all too easy to envision.
Nearby towns and cities like Avdiivka and Bakhmut had been razed to the ground before falling, their names now synonymous with the devastating tactics employed by the Russian army in the 28-month-long war.