Tim mack was in kramatorsk earlier this week, a city that has seen the 75% of its population flee the war. it was also the target of a deadly strike near its train station, you will remember this, that killed 59 people. joining us now from kyiv, is tim mack, npr investigative correspondent, he s been reporting from ukraine since the start of the war. tim, thanks for being here, thank you for being with us. let s talk about your experience, please, and kramatorsk, which is due north of mariupol, it s ingenious in the eastern part of russia that is being fought over. those who remain there, continue to face shelling. there are critical shortages of fuel, and food, there is infrastructure in communication failures. how are people still coping, those who have not left? well, it s a real ghost town and the folks who are still in these areas in the east where this russian offensive in kent is continuing, they re there
In kramatorsk, two dozen people were wounded and we were in kramatorsk earlier this week, a city that has seen 75% of the population flee the war. it is also the target of a deadly strike near its train station, you will remember this, that killed 59 people. joining us now, from kyiv, is tim mack, npr investigative correspondent. he has been reporting from ukraine since the start of the war. tim, thanks for being here. thank you for being with us. let s talk about your experience, please, in kramatorsk, which is due north of mariupol. it s in donetsk in the eastern part of russia that is being fought over, those who remain there, continue to face shelling. there are critical shortages of fuel and food. there s infrastructure and communications failures. how are people still coping, those who have not left? well, its a a real ghost town. and the possession who are still in these areas, in this russian offensive, it is continuing,
They ve been denying and slowing down the russian advance, which has really struggled to make progress in critical areas. in kramatorsk, it s still held by ukrainian forces, meh and points north of there. as you can see by looking at various maps of the battlefield, ukrainian lines are holding installing russian forces if they try to push forward. there hasn t been any dramatic breakthroughs. tim thanks again for your excellent reporting on this, tim mack is an npr investigative correspondent, right now he s in kyiv, we appreciate you making time for us, it s not late it s very early for you there, thank you sir. two things that i learned today the first is that 40, not 3d, 4d actually exists. the second is that the u.s. government is proud owner of one of those theaters, and it
Tim mack, npr investigative correspondent, he s been reporting from ukraine since the start of the war. tim, thanks for being here, thank you for being with us. let s talk about your experience, please, and kramatorsk, which is due north of mariupol, it s ingenious in the eastern part of russia that is being fought over. those who remain there, continue to face shelling. there are critical shortages of fuel, and food, there is infrastructure in communication failures. how are people still coping, those who have not left? well, it s a real ghost town and the folks who are still in these areas in the east where this russian offensive in kent is continuing, they re there because they re on a military mission, a humanitarian mission or they have no choice but to stay. there are a lot of folks who just don t have the means to leave eastern ukraine which they ve called their home their entire lives. i spoke to some folks who said,
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