Analysts believe Chasiv Yar could be the next objective for Russian forces as they seek to encircle Bakhmut, where thousands of Ukrainian civilians remain
Bohdan Gritsenko didn’t flinch as artillery thundered Sunday over his hometown, and the front line of an increasingly bloody war drew nearer. “This is a quiet day,” the 11-year-old explained, as the adults around him looked nervously at the sky. “Yesterday was worse.”
The Ukrainian military, as well as the local authorities in Chasiv Yar, have repeatedly asked local residents to evacuate.
An apartment building destroyed by Russian airstrikes, which resulted in the deaths of 48 civilians in July, 2022.The municipal school where Bohdan’s mother Rimma Morozowa is the deputy director. It is one of two schools still partially functioning in Chasiv Yar when The Globe and Mail visited on Jan. 22.
Some of those who remain, he said, were likely nostalgic about the Soviet era and unbothered by the prospect of Chasiv Yar falling under Russian occupation. Others, he said, were unwilling to contemplate – or like Ms. Morozowa unable to afford – life anywhere else. “But as the Russians are moving closer, the stream of people leaving is rising.”
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