Ukraine: 'Get people out, then shoot' - Volnovakha residents on disrupted evacuation

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SOUNDBITES:

SOT, Driver (Russian): “I drove there, then I came there once again, I took out a few people with me, other people were left in basements. They are afraid to get out.”
Journalist (Russian): “Will you go there again?” *VOICEOVER*
Driver (Russian): “Not now, not now. Maybe I go there tomorrow, but today I won’t.”
Journalist (Russian): “It is difficult, right?” *VOICEOVER*
Driver (Russian): “It is difficult, it is difficult. The shelling was massive, we were driving through a very massive shelling, we were waiting for a long time. We were waiting for a long time.”
Journalist (Russian): “Were they shelling the road itself?” *VOICEOVER*
Driver (Russian): “No. They were shelling the village. They shell the village a lot.”

SOT, Local resident (Russian): “My nephew and me were pleading [Ukrainian Armed Forces] on our knees from the basement to save us. They told us to sit and that they would take us out there. [INAUDIBLE], and after that they started shelling, and they flooded the whole area with the military vehicles.”

SOT, Local resident (Russian): “We don’t want anything. How many years have we been working? I have 36 years of working experience. Why do they treat us like this?”
Another local resident (Russian): “I have two kids, and they have been sitting in a basement for ten days. If only someone just sit in the damp basement without food, without anything. And why didn’t our authorities, who need people, provide an elementary corridor? Get the people out and then, please, shoot! I understand this is war. There are many people in the basements, there are grandmothers who can’t even get up.”

SOT, Local resident (Russian): “They [Donetsk People’s Militia and Russian Armed Forces] even got through on the phone, and he [Dmitri Lubinets, Ukrainian politician] said: “Don’t bother me!”. Lubinets, the one who is here, he said: “Don’t bother me, I’m defending the city!” What is he defending? People asked: “Give us a corridor to get out of here.” They took their relatives out, but we stayed.”

SOT, Evacuated woman (Russian): “We don’t have Internet connection, how do we know if there is a corridor [for evacuation] or not? They could have somehow agreed, drove with loudspeakers [saying:] “People, come out, you have two hours of time!” But it was not done this way. They put the buses on the other side of the bridge, it turns out that one army is standing next to us, the other is at the bus station. So we are between the fires. How can we get out? We want to get out, we didn’t want to sit here in the basement. We also want to live in peace.”

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