Residents of Popasna evacuated to Pervomaisk are taken out due to shelling

Refugees in the LPR. Archival photoPERVOMAISK (LPR), April 19 It was decided to take the residents evacuated to Pervomaisk from Popasna farther from the front line due to constant shelling by the Ukrainian security forces, the deputy director of the Pervomaisky Center for Culture and Leisure told reporters, dealing with issues of humanitarian assistance to refugees, Andrei Appolonov. Earlier, the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that the intensity of shelling of Pervomaisk, Kirovsk and Donetsk in the LPR by Ukrainian troops is not decreasing. On the night of April 18, the Ukrainian security forces opened fire on Pervomaisk, including the city center of culture and leisure, which distributes humanitarian aid to refugees from Popasna. «Basically, everyone is in severe shock (evacuated residents of Popasna — ed.) because, that people have to be taken out not only in cars, but also in armored vehicles.After what people have experienced there, they can’t understand that they are already in a freer territory … People come very frightened, they don’t believe that they will treat them normally… We take people by bus from Pervomaisk to the (neighboring town) Stakhanov,» Appolonov said.