00:00It's actually quite difficult to get outside of Sumy, to try to get to some of the smaller villages in the remote areas.
00:09It's difficult because there are obviously checkpoints and there is an exclusion zone on the Ukrainian side.
00:16But also, even though the Ukrainian army have moved in to one section of the Kursk area,
00:24it's actually quite hard to get to other areas because they are still within shelling and bombing range of Russian forces.
00:34We've just been to one village where people were telling us that there is daily shelling, there is constant shelling.
00:42Nothing that will make the news, but still, for people who live in that village, it's still being targeted.
00:49And yet, surprisingly, people choose not to be evacuated for the time being.
00:56They still say that they want to stay and live and work there while they can.
01:02It is, for many people, as we saw in an evacuation centre in Sumy earlier, it's traumatic for them to leave their homes, leave their land, leave their work.
01:14And they have no idea when they will be able to return, if they have a home to return to.
01:20And that's the dilemma facing so many people in these small rural villages, outside the big towns and cities in northern Ukraine.
01:30Do they stay and face the consequences, perhaps?
01:34Or do they actually leave for the comparative safety of other towns and cities in Ukraine?
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