Over the past two weeks, more than 400 residents have left the frontline city. Most of them are elderly people. It is difficult for them to move and painful for them to leave their homes, even if they were damaged by Russian shelling. But they also want to live.
The lens of the photographer Diego Herrera/Anadolu Agency captures the complex emotions of people at the moment when they are rescued from the fire by the police unit "White Angel". Not only do they take them away, but they listen, encourage them, carry them in their arms, and take care of their belongings. A kind word in the midst of burning ruins heals.
About 6400 people remain in Konstantinovka. The evacuation continues.
Based on the materials of the Main Department of the National Police in Donetsk region