The road to Ukraine’s Kurakhove is known as ‘the road of death’ – residents refuse to leave

A central streets covered in debris from destroyed residential buildings after Russian bombing in Kurakhove, Donetsk - (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Ukraine’s Kurakhove is surrounded on three sides, with Russian forces just under two miles from the devastated city centre.

Yet between 700 and 1,000 local residents remain, most of them living in the basements of apartment buildings, without running water, heating or electricity. The only place to charge phones is in the basement of the building now housing the city administration.