Donbas residents survey aftermath of Russian attack

(23 Jun 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Chasiv Yar, Ukraine – 23 June 2022 1. Part of Russian rocket on the road and woman passing with bicycle 2. Various of attack aftermath, damage on the buildings, people fixing windows 3. Various of people taking plastic sheets to cover broken windows 4.  SOUNDBITE (Russian) Hanna Bilous, resident of Chasiv Yar: "The first explosion was very big. I was watching TV then the building shook. I came close to the window where the balcony is. The balcony was open, everything was open. The windows were closed but not locked. The second blast, the flash was near this building and it threw me back with the blast wave." 5.  Various of damage to the buildings after Russian attack 6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ihor Malosol  resident of Chasiv Yar: "I don't know what is going to happen. Will it be New Russia or Ukraine here? Here there could be two answers or we stay in the center. Somebody will prevail in the war. We don't know. We are proud of Ukraine. But you see yourselves…Everyone says it is Russia that is shelling us you see." 7. Various of people fixing windows, traces of shrapnel on the walls of buildings   Bakhmut, Ukraine – 23 June 2022 8. Ukrainian flags and air raid siren sounding 9. Woman walking with shopping bags, UPSOUND air raid siren 10. Wide of garden UPSOUND air raid siren 11. Various of people walking UPSOUND incoming and outgoing artillery detonations STORYLINE Russian forces on Wednesday attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar in the Donbas region damaging buildings and leaving residents shaken. Residents on Thursday surveyed the damage, which included shattered windows and buildings pockmarked with shrapnel. Many were collecting plastic sheeting to cover their broken windows. Hanna Bilous, a resident of Chasiv Yar said she was watching TV when the building shook. "The second blast, the flash was near this building and it threw me back with the blast wave," she recounted. Air sirens and the sound of artillery could also be heard in nearby Bakhmut, some 20 minutes east of Chashiv Yar. Ukraine's east has been the main focus of Russia's attacks for more than two months. Ukraine's military said the Russians were moving to take the hills overlooking a highway linking Lysychansk with Bakhmut, to the southwest, in an attempt to cut the supply lines of Ukrainian forces. Luhansk's governor said the key Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway wasn't being used because of heavy Russian shelling and the Ukrainian forces are getting supplies via an alternative route. Britain's defence ministry said that Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from some areas near the city of Lysychansk, the latest major battlefield in Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine, to avoid the possibility of being encircled as Russians sent in reinforcements and concentrated their firepower in the area. Following a botched attempt to capture the Ukrainian capital in the early stage of the invasion on Feb. 24, Russian forces have shifted focus to Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, where the Ukrainian forces have fought Moscow-backed separatists since 2014. The Russian military currently controls about 95% of the Luhansk region, and about half of the neighboring Donetsk region of Donbas. AP video shot by: Srdjan Nedeljkovic =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...