Residents flee as war arrives in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine - in pictures
Compared with others in war-scarred eastern Ukraine, the mining town of Toretsk was in a relatively sleepy sector of the frontline. Then suddenly, the Russian assaults began, and life there deteriorated drastically. And with the heavily increased amount of rockets and airstrikes that started raining down on Toretsk’s shaken residents many people decided to leave the town, while others decided to stay
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A local resident pushes a bicycle past a destroyed residential building after shelling in the town of Toretsk, eastern Donetsk region
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An elderly woman heads to fill empty bottles with water in Toretsk
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Residents sit outside an apartment building in Toretsk
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A local resident walks past a burning building after shelling in Toretsk
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A local resident holds a box carrying her parrot during an evacuation of civilians by volunteers from Toretsk
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A local resident walks past a burning building
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Local residents pack boxes of products from their shop at a local market as they flee the town
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A destroyed residential building after shelling in Toretsk
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People drive a 1950s Moskwich car loaded with items of luggage on a road from Toretsk
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Smoke rising from the ruins of a destroyed residential building
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Ukrainian military service personnel gather outside the town
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A Ukrainian military armoured vehicle is driven towing a Msta-B howitzer on a road towards Toretsk
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A wounded Ukrainian soldier is treated by a military medics at a stabilisation point of the 41st Mechanized Brigade, in the Toretsk urban district
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Ukrainian military service personnel look on towards the town of Toretsk
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Oleksandr, a 67-year-old local resident, pushes a trolley loaded with bottles of water, in the town of Toretsk
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Local resident Oleksandr, 67, (left) poses for a photograph flanked by his wife Galyna, 63, in their apartment in the town of Toretsk, eastern Donetsk region
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