Chasiv Yar is almost completely destroyed, 679 people remain in the city and refuse to evacuate

Chasiv Yar / Photo from open sources

Almost 680 people who refuse to evacuate still remain in the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region.

This was stated by the head of RMA, Vadym Filashkin.

«679 people still remain in Chasiv Yar and refuse to evacuate. Every day, it becomes more and more difficult to bring humanitarian aid to the city, because the enemy is shooting at all the roads,» he said.

According to Filashkin, Chasiv Yar was almost completely destroyed.

The situation in Chasovoy Yar

Serhii Chaus, the head of the Chasiv Yar city military administration, said that there are currently no Russian occupiers on the territory of the community. He also said that most of the people who stay in the city are elderly people.

Earlier, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that Russia's top military leadership had set a task for its troops to capture Chasiv Yar by May 9.

The spokesman of the National Guard, Ruslan Muzychuk, said that the Russian invaders are making attempts to attack from the flanks from the settlements around Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, but they are not succeeding.