Birdsong explosion the first sounds of spring, now drowned out by heavy shelling. in eastern ukraine, their battered flag still flying, but signs of life are vanishing fast, in the face of a renewed russian offensive. russia is making small gains, but creating widespread chaos and devastation, right across the region. most have already fled the towns and cities of the donbas. it s the few, like valentina, who ve stayed behind. we found her trying to find food, during a lull in the fighting. translation: of course it s dangerous. everybody is scared. now we are even afraid of silence. you never know what will happen next. this is now her home. lysychansk has become an underground city. she shares a dark, dank shelter
Drowned out by heavy shelling. in eastern ukraine, their battered flag still flying, but signs of life are vanishing fast, in the face of a renewed russian offensive. russia is making small gains, but creating widespread chaos and devastation, right across the region. most have already fled the towns and cities of the donbas. it s the few, like valentina, who ve stayed behind. we found her trying to find food, during a lull in the fighting. translation: of course it s dangerous. everybody is scared. now we are even afraid of silence. you never know what will happen next. this is now her home. lysychansk has become an underground city. she shares a dark, dank shelter with another 50 people. they say they re running out of clean water and food,
Most have already fled the towns and cities of the donbas. it s the few, like valentina, who ve stayed behind. we found her trying to find food, during a lull in the fighting. translation: of course it s dangerous. everybody is scared. now we are even afraid of silence. you never know what will happen next. this is now her home. lysychansk has become an underground city. she shares a dark, dank shelter with another 50 people. they say they re running out of clean water and food, and some don t even care which side is winning. translation: my brain hurts. two idiots are fighting, two old men. all of them are guilty. all of them.
Where mainly civilians have been sheltering in basements, short of food and water. birdsong. explosion. the first sounds of spring, now drowned out by heavy shelling. in eastern ukraine, their battered flag still flying, but signs of life are vanishing fast, in the face of a renewed russian offensive. russia is making small gains, but creating widespread chaos and devastation, right across the region. most have already fled the towns and cities of the donbas. it s the few, like valentina, who ve stayed behind. we found her trying to find
Vanishing fast in the face of a renewed russian offensive. russia is making small gains but creating widespread chaos and devastation right across the region. most have already fled the towns and cities of the donbas. it s the few, like valentina, who ve stayed behind. we found her trying to find food during a lull in the fighting. translation: of course it s dangerous. everybody is scared. now we are even afraid of silence. you never know what will happen next. this is now her home. lysychansk has become an underground city. she shares a dark, dank shelter with another 50 people. they say they re running out of clean water and food, and some don t even care which side is winning. translation: my brain hurts.