To stay or go? The dilemma Ukrainians near front face every day

Residents queue to fill up bottles with fresh drinking water brought in to a neighbourhood near the frontline after critical civil infrastructure was hit amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura

KALYNIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - It was finally time for Vasyl Kurlyshchuk to leave.

When Ukraine's State Emergency Service evacuation team arrived outside the gate of his small home in the eastern village of Kalynivka on Tuesday, the 74-year-old began slowly sorting through his papers and faded picture albums.