FILE PHOTO: Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine holds vote on joining RussiaZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine -"It's funny. Nobody voted, yet the results are in," laughed Lyubomir Boyko, 43, from Golo Pristan, a village in Russian-occupied Kherson province as he waited on Wednesday outside a United Nations aid office with his family at a refugee reception centre.
He, his wife and their two children had arrived at the aid centre in the parking lot of a home improvement store in Ukrainian-held Zaporizhzhia city, after waiting for two days before Russian forces abruptly let them out. For now, Russian forces have been letting some people out of occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces through the one checkpoint. No one knows how long the route will stay open.
"We left because we could feel the pressure, the doors were closing and we would not be able to leave," said shopkeeper Lyudmila Sapronov, 48, whose family travelled in a second car along with the Gorobets family. An air raid siren sounded, and a downpour drenched the parking lot of the Epicenter home improvement store that hosts the reception center in plastic shelters. A U.S.-based charity, World Central Kitchen, was providing hot meals inside a tent.
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