Residents in frontline towns not heeding evacuation warnings Some residents in settlements close to the fiercely contested frontline are ignoring calls from Ukrainian authorities to evacuate. Of the roughly 12,000 people living across the 37 settlements along the frontline in the northeast, only a few hundred have heeded evacuation warnings. Many have said they can't bring themselves to leave home to face the hardships of displacement, crowded shelters and faraway expensive cities. Some fear the prospect of poverty and loneliness, while others refuse to abandon their homes where they invested their life savings. Authorities say they stay at their own...