Russians evacuated to Ukraine after Kursk shelter bombed

More than 100 Russian civilians, several of them severely wounded, have been evacuated to Ukraine in recent days as President Vladimir Putin intensifies efforts to retake Russian territory ahead of any potential peace talks.

Most of the civilians moved over the border in dramatic nighttime evacuations after a Feb. 1 strike on the main bomb shelter in the town of Sudzha killed at least five people and left an unknown number buried under rubble. Many were elderly and left Russia with only the clothes on their backs, piling into civilian and Ukrainian military vehicles that moved without headlights through treacherous backroads, hoping to avoid detection by armed Russian drones circling overhead.

Aid workers from the local Red Cross, waited just inside Ukraine, where they moved the civilians into vans and ambulances and rushed them away from the frequently bombed border villages to hospitals and a temporary shelter.

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