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TORETSK, Ukraine — In this town at the gates of the war’s eastern front line, a rescue team was helping an elderly couple leave the home where they had lived for 50 years.

“Take my hand,” Eduard Skoryk, one of the rescue workers, tells Lyudmilla as he helps her into the ambulance.

“Our troops are gradually but confidently moving forward,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar told reporters on Tuesday, Aug. 15, “despite great obstacles from our enemy, like mines, air strikes, mortar attacks.”

He gets up early, puts on a helmet and flak jacket and jumps into a van with a sign that reads “EVACUATIONS” in Ukrainian.

We follow Skoryk’s van along a half-paved road to the town, stopping first at the local cultural center, which has now been turned into a hub for donations of food, bottled water and other supplies.

He unloads crates of bottled water and hugs the volunteers, some of whom are local council members trying to keep the town running.

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