04/02/2025
I've said it many times. Civilians should not remain in Pokrovsk unless they can fight. Evacuating them endangers volunteers, and their presence forces the military to act as social workers instead of focusing on combat. The army has enough to deal with. It doesn't need the added burden of protecting non-combatants while facing the enemy. It’s a fatal distraction. Ukraine needs to win this war.
As the surgeon said in this BBC report when asked about victory, he said we need more people fighting and more patriotism. At last such talk amongst Ukrainians is happening. We know there are not enough weapons and that is the West’s fault, but when will the millions that have left Ukraine come back to fight for their homeland? If that happened, perhaps the West would think again.
Ukrainian volunteers are going house to house in Pokrovsk as Russian drones hunt from the skies.