Ukrainians eking out a precarious existence in the shadow of a possible Russian invasion have got used to not knowing if they will survive from one day to the next.
Serheyeva and other villagers subsist on their vegetable plots and chickens, getting water from wells and fending off the cold with stoves fuelled by wood and coal. Early in the conflict, when fighting was at its peak, they spent months underground.
"There was massive damage. House extensions, sometimes even half of a house was wiped away. Massive craters," she said. "Many houses were on fire. A lot of them. Almost half of the houses on my street." "I will take what I can if I realise that the threat is imminent and serious," she said, while wondering aloud where she would go and how she would survive when she got there.
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