Civilians flee intense fighting in contested eastern Ukraine
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People board an evacuation train in Pokrovsk railway station, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People walk towards an evacuation train in Pokrovsk railway station, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area look out the window of an evacuation train in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area sit in an evacuation train in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area cries moments before departing by train to western Ukraine from the Pokrovsk railway station, Friday, June 10.YURI KOCHETKOV/POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, June 10. The Turkmen president is on official visit in Moscow.YURI KOCHETKOV/POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a joint press conference with President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, June 10. The Turkmen president is on official visit in Moscow.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian soldier holds radios during heavy fighting on the front line in Severodonetsk, the Luhansk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 8.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A scoreboard counts the number of injured people assisted and carried by a military ambulance personnel in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An injured Ukrainian servicemen is transferred to a medical facility after getting an emergency medical treatment in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rapper Viacheslav Drofa, known as Otoy, center, trains with other militia men at a shot range outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7. From the battlefronts of Ukraine comes rap music — filled with the anger and indignation of a young generation that, once the fighting is done, will certainly never forget and may never forgive.Ukrainian rapper-turned-volunteer soldier Otoy is putting the war into words and thumping baselines, tapping out lyrics under Russian shelling on his phone, with the light turned low to avoid becoming a target. It helps numb the nerve-shredding stress of combat.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man looks at buildings destroyed during Russian attacks on Borodyanka on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4.