Toretsk is on the frontline of Ukraine's battle with Russia, but throughout you possibly can see cyclists pedalling across the streets, going about their each day enterprise as if defying the encircling hazard.
Oleksandr is a former miner. "How am I presupposed to drive?" he says. "Petrol is dear, I've nothing to drive. And I have to get round."
It is a comparable image in Kramatorsk. Those that stay usually are not oblivious of the dangers, they've accepted them.
"I would like, if something occurs, to die instantly," says Volodymyr. "In order that you do not turn into disabled afterwards."
It is estimated that tons of of hundreds of Ukrainians have chosen to stay within the threatened areas of Donetsk, regardless of authorities orders to evacuate.
Watch the report within the video participant above.
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