A Ukrainian police officer inspects a half-destroyed building when, suddenly, he rushes to the ground, ducking for cover.
“Incoming,” he shouts to his partner, in body camera video seen by CNN, as a shell lands nearby. “There will be more.” There’s little to police these days in Avdiivka as most of the people who used to live in this frontline city are gone. But some 1,600 have remained, and this unit — the White Angels — are there to evacuate them to safety. “On average, we evacuate four people from Avdiivka per day,” Lieutenant Dmytro Soloviy, a member of the unit told CNN in a phone interview.
Dozens of Ukrainian flags dot the route, but so do crumbling walls and shattered windows - entire buildings, some several stories high, razed to the ground. “The situation has not changed radically - it is tough,” the head of the Avdiivka city military administration Vitalii Barabash said in daily update on Wednesday. “The defense line around the city and in the city itself is constantly under fire. are firing with everything they have.
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