Pokrovsk: life in a frontline town

Donetsk region, Pokrovsk, 2024.

The video shows life in the frontline city: the Pokrovsk stele, streets, apartment buildings, plywood-boarded windows and doors, buildings without windows, a pedestal “A monument to the great son of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko will be erected here,” a car “Evacuation. People are more valuable than gold” car, local residents, food stalls, scattered building materials, a littered road, a destroyed private house.

Interviews: local residents; Serhiy Dobriak, head of the Pokrovsk military administration; people interviewed about living conditions in the town and the evacuation; Dmytro Sergienko, volunteer.

Reference: Every day, Russian troops shell Pokrovsk, destroying critical infrastructure, social institutions, and residential buildings. Between August and December 2024, more than 40,000 people left the city, children were evacuated, and all museums and monuments were removed.

The houses and public institutions damaged by shelling, no electricity, no gas supply since December 12, no water supply to the townspeople - this is how Pokrovsk ended 2024. The official statistics released by the city authorities on December 30: infrastructure is damaged or completely destroyed: 70% of residential buildings, 80% of social facilities, 95% of industrial facilities.