The instinct to survive has been honed in those Lyman residents who've remained through months of fighting, bombing and Russian occupation. And there are a surprisingly large number of them.
Alex Crawford visits the city of Lyman.The drift of the fighting as the Ukrainians press forward into the Donbas has meant the forests, the town of Lyman, and the surrounding areas are finally giving up their secrets.
"We first questioned every civilian who remained in Lyman during the occupation and we discovered there'd been some burials," he says. We see large tents and teams of investigators - some in hazmat suits - sifting through the graves to try to determine the facts but police ask us not to film the area or their work until they've been able to establish a few facts.
The head of this anti-mining group is Anatolyy Krasnopyorov and he says:"We're finding a lot of them in Donetsk - particularly the 'leaves'. They're forbidden under the Geneva Convention but they are still throwing them all around."
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