CBS News meets weary souls eking out an existence in a front-line Ukrainian town where Russia 'can't do anything except bomb everything.'
Lysychansk is a ghost town. Just several miles from Russia's invading forces, the mining community in eastern's industrial heartland once had a population of 100,000. A tiny fraction of those residents remain, with those who can't or won't escape eking out an existence amid ruins.
Down a tree-lined road, a commercial building was turned inside out. Corrugated iron and insulation were spread across the road like confetti. Walking as if lost through the debris was Dmytro, a freelance worker, now jobless and trapped. When there's shelling, he holes-up at home. But the crater and the fractured pipeline within it offer a consolation of sorts: Much needed water for the toilets. Residents were taking it in turns to scramble unsteadily into the pit to dunk plastic buckets.
Walking through the streets, it looked like some kind of dystopian retirement village. An elderly couple walked hand-in-hand across pavement carpeted in shattered glass. A man in a cap and sweater pushed his bike up a hill, offering a cheery"zdravstvuyte!" as he passed. Ludmilla said she does fear the rockets and bombs, but she was resigned to her fate should the Ukrainian defenses collapse. If the Russians arrive, she said, they will kill her first anyway: Being a vocal Ukrainian patriot in an area filled with pro-Russians has always been difficult. Now it could prove deadly.
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