Thousands Are Fleeing as Putin Bombs the Donbas Cities He Most Covets

While Kyiv’s fortunes have brightened in other ways in the war, Moscow’s forces are raining bombs and drones on “fortress belt” cities like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.Evacuees from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, waited to be processed at a transit hub in Lozova, Ukraine, last month.