The occupiers are already advancing, and people are surviving in basements: Reuters report from Konstantinovka

There are reports of fighting in the southern part of Konstantinovka.

Civilians still live in Konstantinovka , where fighting is already raging in the surrounding area. Reuters journalists who visited the town reported this in a report.

Journalists spoke with a local resident, 65-year-old Vladimir, who constantly hides in the basement of his home. Numerous shrapnel marks can be seen on the house.

“Everything around us was damaged, everything burned. It’s terrible, but we’re living – what can we do? It’s hard, but we can endure it. We’ve gotten used to it, we’ve settled in a bit,” he said.

The man set up a home among the gray concrete walls, bringing in kitchen cabinets, a stove, and a generator. He moves around with a headlamp. Vladimir, he says, is staying in the city to care for his ailing mother-in-law. He and others are surviving in homes destroyed by bombs and shrapnel as winter approaches.

Residents stocked up on food from humanitarian workers, who are no longer making deliveries due to the danger. They also collect rainwater, which they later purify at a nearby field station. Journalists saw an elderly woman pulling a propane tank on a cart.

Another resident, 54-year-old Yuri, said his neighbors recently pulled him from the rubble of a recent Russian air strike on his apartment building. He was wounded and is still in pain.

“Where should I go? With what?” he said, adding that monthly rent elsewhere was nearly triple his pension, which is about $85.

“It may be blown to pieces,” he said of his damaged home, “but at least it’s mine.”

Russian offensive on Konstantinovka

The publication reports that Russian troops are advancing on a city that was once a key hub for Ukraine’s eastern forces. Kostyantynivka is one of the cities that Ukraine, according to the so-called US “peace plan,” is supposed to hand over to Russia without a fight.

“With the strategically important city of Pokrovsk on the brink of capture, officials and analysts believe Russia will now target the so-called ‘fortress belt’ of remaining Ukrainian-controlled cities in the east,” the article says.

It’s noted that Kostiantynivka is the most vulnerable. And, according to Deep State, fighting is already raging on its southern outskirts. Powerful explosions are heard in the distance, and drones, often several at a time, whistle overhead.

Ukrainian soldiers are seeking cover under trees and in the remains of buildings in the destroyed city. Thirty-two-year-old Dmytro, a soldier from the 49th Separate Assault Battalion “Carpathian Sich,” said he has little faith that the fighting will end.

“I consider every inch of our homeland important. And we don’t plan to simply give it away,” he said.

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