of a flare up along the front line today. the village is on ukrainian soil, but some here sympathise with moscow and put the blame on ukrainian troops. they insist it was russian backed rebels nearby and say president putin is laying a trap. we think it s a provocation, she says, because there is shelling of civilian areas where there are no army positions. the enemy wants to provoke the ukrainian army. the tension has been increasing here, and for communities living on the front line, the risks and the suffering are increasing also. the warnings about an invasion keep coming, but whether or not that happens, communities here are already trapped in a war of attrition. and across the front line, in the breakaway capital of donetsk, sirens wailing after the authorities announced women and children would be
landed in their garden. they started at the hill, he says. the last shell fell here. now all the mud is inside my house. the attack here was part of a flare up along the front line. the village is on ukrainian soil, but some here sympathise with moscow and put the blame on ukrainian troops. they insist it was russian backed rebels nearby and say president putin is laying a trap. we think it s a provocation, she says, because there is shelling of civilian areas where there are no army positions. the enemy wants to provoke the ukrainian army. the tension has been increasing here, and for communities living on the front line, the risks and the suffering are increasing also. the warnings about an invasion
is laying a trap. we think it s a provocation, she says, because there is shelling of civilian areas where there are no army positions. the enemy wants to provoke the ukrainian army. the tension has been increasing here, and for communities living on the front line, the risks and the suffering are increasing also. the warnings about an invasion keep coming, but whether or not that happens, communities here are already trapped in a war of attrition. and across the front line, in the breakaway capital of donetsk, sirens wailing after the authorities announced women and children would be evacuated to russia. separatist leader denis pushilin said the operation was arranged on friday the 18th, because ukraine would soon attack.
they started at the hill, he says. the last shell fell here. now all the mud is inside my house. the attack here was part of a flare up along the front line. the village is on ukrainian soil, but some here sympathise with moscow and put the blame on ukrainian troops. they insist it was russian backed rebels nearby and say president putin is laying a trap. we think it s a provocation, she says, because there is shelling of civilian areas where there are no army positions. the enemy wants to provoke the ukrainian army. the tension has been increasing here, and for communities living on the front line, the risks and the suffering are increasing also. the warnings about an invasion keep coming, but whether or not that happens, communities here are already trapped
the warnings about an invasion keep coming, but whether or not that happens, communities here are already trapped in a war of attrition. and across the front line in the breakaway capital of donetsk, sirens wailing after the authorities announced women and children would be evacuated to russia. separatist leader denis said the operation was arranged today, friday the 18th, because ukraine would soon attack. but a bbc analysis of the metadata shows this footage was recorded two days ago. tonight, video has emerged showing small numbers boarding buses, apparently bound for russia. the west has long feared that president putin would use the separatist areas as a pretext for an attack on ukraine. it looks like the stage is being set for something.