and making our streets and communities safer.

Maybe we will have to run away even further.She warned her sister not to come because there were explosions.

Student sent his family abroad for safety soon after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 and has been unable to see his two daughters since then.He and his men are a mobile fire unit from Ukraine's 117 Territorial Defence Brigade – all locals trying to defend not just their hometown but their country.In Ukraine's north-eastern region of Sumy.

Neither did anyone else around us.and we have no idea how long all this is going to last.

A hundred Shahed drones a night is standard for Sumy.

Additional reporting by Wietske Burema.who had been in the middle of the scrum.

But as the inflatable boat turned and reversed towards the shore.In all there were probably 80 or 100 people.

up the sandy paths through the dunes towards the nearest village and a bus-ride back to the migrant camps further north.the boat itself was clearly in trouble.