We are on a road outside of Bovtansk.
It's a few miles away,
but you can smoke in the trees behind.
This is the road that leads to Bob Chant.
We've seen military vehicles racing in that direction,
also racing in this direction.
Police cars, as an evacuation point close by.
Just on Friday was incredibly busy with residents being evacuated
out of the city as the Russians closed in.
But people that we've spoken to today said that the
situation inside the town now is getting more dangerous.
We've been told that there are groups,
small groups of Russian soldiers.
They were described as sabotage groups,
actually on the ground and a lot of drones,
they're called FPV drones, these suicide drones flying overhead.
So volunteers say that the residents are actually being asked
to go to the this sort of side of Bob
Chansk to be evacuated rather than have teams going inside
because it's so dangerous. And to underline that .1 police
officer that we spoke to,
he drove out to this evacuation point in a in
an armoured vehicle that had bullet shots,
gunshots in it. He said that he was going to
evacuate.
Civilian and then machine gunfire rang out,
hitting the car. He said he could see the flashes
of the guns of the Russian soldiers who were firing
at him.
He, him and his team were very lucky to escape
alive.
They said that they are actually going back in because
there are civilians that need rescuing.
But there was a group of volunteers that we had
spoken to and gone in with actually on Friday,
and they said that it is incredibly dangerous and they
told us about how civilians are coming a bit closer
to be evacuated.
To stop the need for people to go inside.
It's a very fluid situation.
Even spoken to a soldier who has said to us
about the fact that there are these groups of soldiers
on the ground.
It does feel as though Russia is advancing here,
and it could only be perhaps a matter of time
until they take Bob chance.
But for now, under Ukrainian control,
the Ukrainians are throwing a lot back at trying to
repel this Russian assault.
But it's a very critical time.