Kyiv, Ukraine – There is heavy, ”chaotic” fighting in the eastern Ukrainian town of New York.
Its prewar population stood at 3,000, and many worked at the Communist-era phenol plant whose odorous exhaust once filled the town’s centre.
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But the plant has been damaged. Most residents have fled heavy shelling and the ever-shifting front line.
“It almost doesn’t exist as such, because one building is ours, another is already under [Russians], yet another one is ours again,” a Ukrainian serviceman wrote on Telegram on Wednesday.https://community.nicic.gov/node/40714
The town is about 60km (37 miles) from Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian defensive stronghold which Russian forces are bearing down on.
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Moscow claimed to have taken New York earlier this week, but Kyiv says there are still sizeable pockets of resistance and that Russians move towards the larger town of Toretsk bypassing them.
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Fighting in eastern Ukraine has heated up while Kyiv’s successful surprise offensive in the western Russian region of Kursk captures the world’s attention.
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But the incursion has eclipsed the doom and gloom of Donetsk in news reports.
A top military expert warns that that Kyiv should concentrate its efforts to “stop the dangerous advance in the east”.
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In New York, Russian mortar killed an elderly man in his backyard. His grandson pleaded with anyone in the town to take a photo of his grave in the garden.
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“Help me if you can. Thank you and may God save you all,” the man wrote in a Telegram chat for New Yorkers at about 3am on Thursday. No one has replied yet.
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Those who stayed in New York are either too old or disabled to move – or want to live under Moscow despite the destruction and death they witness firsthand, according to a community leader.
