Ukraine volunteers transfer people from eastern warzones to safety
DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine - Evgeniy Trokhimenko joins several other fellow volunteers on a daily basis to save the lives of Ukrainians seeking to flee the war in the war-torn eastern regions, taking them to safety in the central and western parts of the country.
"Since the outbreak of the war, a number of people have started rescuing and evacuating people voluntarily. Later they changed it to an organization in order to transfer people in a more organized way," Trokhimenko said of the activities that his organization carries out in the city of Druzhkovka, adding that they have provided everyone with a hotline number that they could contact if they want to be relocated to other parts of Ukraine.
Artyom Serik, 37, a local Ukrainian from Druzhkovka, is one of hundreds of thousands who have come to a center in his city to be relocated to Zhytomyr where he wants to find a job, live in peace, and join his wife and children that he sent there months ago.
Zhytomyr is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine.
"There is no job here," Serik lamented. "And we have no money on us. So we have decided to leave here and go to Zhytomyr."
I hope we will find a job and establish a life there," he hoped.
More than 40,000 from the war-battered eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk have been evacuated to safety in the center and western parts of Ukraine.
"People fleeing home are more due to the constant bombings. Today, the bombardment was less intense, so fewer people have come to register their names to be relocated elsewhere in Ukraine," Marina Khudoliy, Kramatorsk administrator of Save Ukraine Organization said.
"Since the outbreak of the war, a number of people have started rescuing and evacuating people voluntarily. Later they changed it to an organization in order to transfer people in a more organized way," Trokhimenko said of the activities that his organization carries out in the city of Druzhkovka, adding that they have provided everyone with a hotline number that they could contact if they want to be relocated to other parts of Ukraine.
Artyom Serik, 37, a local Ukrainian from Druzhkovka, is one of hundreds of thousands who have come to a center in his city to be relocated to Zhytomyr where he wants to find a job, live in peace, and join his wife and children that he sent there months ago.
Zhytomyr is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine.
"There is no job here," Serik lamented. "And we have no money on us. So we have decided to leave here and go to Zhytomyr."
I hope we will find a job and establish a life there," he hoped.
More than 40,000 from the war-battered eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk have been evacuated to safety in the center and western parts of Ukraine.
"People fleeing home are more due to the constant bombings. Today, the bombardment was less intense, so fewer people have come to register their names to be relocated elsewhere in Ukraine," Marina Khudoliy, Kramatorsk administrator of Save Ukraine Organization said.