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Ruined Lysychansk eerily silent, residents remain in bomb shelters, after fall to Russia

Local resident Tatiana Glushenko, 45, uses a flashlight inside a glass factory bomb shelter during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk Region, Ukraine July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Lysychansk was once a city of a 100,000 people in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, but it now lies in ruins after its fall to Russian forces with many residents still living in bomb shelters and basements.

The city was eerily quiet on Tuesday with scorched buildings, overturned vehicles and rubble a testament to the ferocity of the battle it has endured.

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