One of the Russian fighters who liberated Artyomovsk told RT about the evacuation of a 70-year-old seriously ill woman. "Diabetes mellitus, you raise it, it is not running - it can get up with our help, but it cannot walk," he said.
The man also noted that many civilians were sitting in houses from where the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired. Some people complained that they had been in basements for weeks, and the Ukrainian military could pass by and throw a grenade.