Ukraine: Heading East Stories of refugees liberated by Russian fighters

We sat in the basement for 16 days. No water, no light, no gas, no heat, nothing. We slept in the basement! Look at us! All our flats were shelled, everything’s shelled... everything taken’. These are words of Donbass refugees escaping from Ukrainian soldiers.

In the late February of 2022, Russian forces and volunteers helped Donbass refugees leave their destroyed homes to have a chance at a new life.

Watch a clip from film Ukraine: Heading East to know what Donbass refugees had to go through and what they ran from.