Roughly 70,000 residents lived in Toretsk before the full-scale invasion."We are making every effort to evacuate civilians... The security situation allows entering the town and evacuating the population only in certain periods when there is a lull in fighting or favorable weather conditions," the official said.The Ukrainian military said earlier this week that fights are taking place "at every building entrance" as Russian forces are pushing from the east along the main Tsentralna (Central) Street.The estimated advance of Russian forces in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, as of Oct. 10, 2024, according to the DeepState monitoring site. (DeepState/OpenStreetMaps)The crowdsourced monitoring website DeepState indicates that settlements on the eastern outskirts of Toretsk – Pivnichne, Zalizne, Druzhba, and Pivdenne – are fully or almost completely in Russian hands.According to the monitoring group, Russian forces have been advancing along Tsentralna Street since late September and have reached the town's center as of October.The Kyiv Independent could not verify all the claims.