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Relief workers are trying to help people leave a ruined city in Ukraine

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There are still some 10,000 civilians² in the Ukrainian frontline city of Bakhmut. Many have left and some live in a shelter in a nearby town where they share stories of survival and loss.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

More than eight months of continuous fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces has left the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in ruins. But the Red Cross reports about 10,000 civilians are still there. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports on one effort to help them get out.

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE³: We arrive at a kindergarten in the town of Kostyantynivka, about 18 miles from Bakhmut. It's just been turned into a center for displaced civilians.

LUBOV: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: "Hello, sweeties. Come in. Do you want tea?" asks 61-year-old Lubov. She's afraid to give her last name lest the Russians come after her.

LUBOV: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: It's a beautiful house.

LUBOV: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: Oh, my God, it has, like...

She shows me pictures on her cellphone of her 10 kittens and neat brick house she left behind last October and since destroyed by Russian artillery⁴. Now she's renting an apartment in town with two friends. She works at the shelter to forget her sorrows. Lubov says only those who've lived through this can help the new arrivals.

LUBOV: (Through interpreter) Everyone comes here with his own story of misery⁵ and pain. But you can't cry and sympathize with them too much. We speak sternly, focus on the here and now so they don't fall apart.

DAVID TAGLIANI: (Non-English language spoken).

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).

TAGLIANI: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: David Tagliani is an EMT from Seattle who's been in Ukraine since the start of the war. He works with a group called Stay Safe Ukraine that's setting up the new shelter. He says when they try to get people to leave towns near the front line, they always say the same thing.

TAGLIANI: I have lived in this little village my entire life. I've never stepped foot outside it. Why would I go to Kharkiv or Kramatorsk or Kyiv? I don't know anybody there.

BEARDSLEY: That inspired this temporary shelter close to Bakhmut to give people the chance to sleep and think clearly. They can recharge cellphones that have been dead for months due to lack of electricity to let family know they're still alive.

TAGLIANI: The shelter has, you know, food, bunk⁶ beds, clothing, the whole nine yards - and internet.

OLEKSANDR NABIULLIN: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: Sixty-four-year-old Oleksandr Nabiullin arrived here five days ago after two of his three dogs were killed by shell fire. He brought the third with him. The shelter accepts pets. He says it's taken him days to calm down.

NABIULLIN: (Through interpreter) Being shot at by tanks is a huge psychological strain. For days, I've lived in a dugout I set up under my house.

(Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: He says he's thankful to the support from President Biden and calls the Russians barbarians⁷.

NATASHA: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: Fifty-four-year-old Natasha (ph), who doesn't want to share her last name, just got out of Bakhmut.

NATASHA: (Through interpreter) I held on until the very end. All of our shops were bombed. A plane flew over my house at 3 in the morning. Everything was shaking. We thought it was the end.

BEARDSLEY: She says if the Russians get past Bakhmut, they will advance in all directions. People here talk about the hundreds of soldiers' unclaimed bodies now starting to decompose⁸ as the weather warms.

(SOUNDBITE OF UNLOADING BOXES)

BEARDSLEY: Volunteers arrive with sacks of potatoes and boxes of clothing sent from Germany. Fifty-five-year-old Oleksiy is helping⁹ unload. He came from Bakhmut with his 79-year-old mother. He says the winter was terrible.

OLEKSIY: (Through interpreter) We had a wood-burning stove, so we were OK. But other people froze to death.

BEARDSLEY: Oleksiy says they were able to get water at a spring until the Russians shelled them there. He says five of his neighbors went to get water and never came back. We made soup with rainwater, he says.

(SOUNDBITE OF EXPLOSIONS)

BEARDSLEY: As artillery rumbles¹⁰ in the distance, I ask what he thinks about President Vladimir Putin's claim of protecting Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.

OLEKSIY: (Through interpreter) He's killing¹¹ Russian speakers. I don't understand what we did to Putin that he treats us like this. All our lives, we were taught that Ukrainians and Russians are brothers.

BEARDSLEY: These people say before the war, many in Bakhmut felt close to Russia, but no longer.

NATASHA: (Non-English language spoken).

BEARDSLEY: "We lived normally," says Natasha. "Everything was calm and fine. What did we need protection from?"

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kostyantynivka.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

5 misery   

n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦

参考例句：

• Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。

6 bunk   

n.(车、船等倚壁而设的)铺位；废话

参考例句：

• He left his bunk and went up on deck again.他离开自己的铺位再次走到甲板上。
• Most economists think his theories are sheer bunk.大多数经济学家认为他的理论纯属胡说。

7 barbarians   

n.野蛮人( barbarian的名词复数 )；外国人；粗野的人；无教养的人

参考例句：

• The ancient city of Rome fell under the iron hooves of the barbarians. 古罗马城在蛮族的铁蹄下沦陷了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• It conquered its conquerors, the barbarians. 它战胜了征服者——蛮族。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

8 decompose   

vi.分解；vt.（使）腐败，（使）腐烂

参考例句：

• The eggs began to decompose after a day in the sun.鸡蛋在太阳下放了一天后开始变坏。
• Most animals decompose very quickly after death.大多数动物死后很快腐烂。

9 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

10 rumbles   

隆隆声，辘辘声( rumble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• If I hear any rumbles I'll let you know. 我要是听到什么风声就告诉你。
• Three blocks away train rumbles by. 三个街区以外，火车隆隆驶过。

11 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。