Some Ukrainians won’t flee areas caught in crosshairs of war

Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, watches the news on his tv in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Now a widower, Ilchenko says he still has no intention of leaving. "I don't have anywhere to go and don't want to either. What would I do there? Here at least I can sit on the bench, I can watch TV," he says in an interview in his single-room apartment. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Some Ukrainians won’t flee areas caught in crosshairs of war