Ukrainians try to flee Severodonetsk as Russia intensifies attack

Klavidia, 91, is carried on an improvised stretcher as she boards a train, fleeing the war in Severodonetsk at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)

Ukrainian Iryna caresses dogs as she asks for money to support a centre for abandoned dogs next to a poster that reads in Ukrainian: 'Heroes don't die', in Kyiv. (Photo | AP)

An elderly woman sits on a train at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, before departing to flee from the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns. (Photo | AP)

A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a building near a frontline position in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)

An elderly woman waits at a train station before boarding a train at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)

Volunteers help an elderly woman to board a train, fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)

People choose from donated clothes that are displayed at a train station before boarding a train, fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns, in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)

An elderly woman is carried on a stretcher to board a train at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)

Irina, 61, left, stands next to her mother Klavidia, 91, who lies on a mattress next to another elderly woman as they wait to board a train fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk, at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. (Photo | AP)