I believe I heard they were unaccounted for.
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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled My Notes on video | Ukr Disaster: Rus Sweeps Towards Pokrovsk, Collapse; Key Villages Fall, Zelensky Doubles Down Kursk , Karl Spooner wrote: Russians have evacuated except for around 2000 people total. I believe I heard they were unaccounted for.
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Yes. You are correct. Mercouris said 2000 were'Unaccounted for'. I made a (mistaken) assumption that the unaccounted for had remained. But, Putin has previously said that the Ukrainian force was deemed terrorist because some among them were firing on citizens fleeing in cars, shooting at ambulances, firetrucks and people. Hopefully they haven't killed 2000!