The giant policeman in military fatigues and a combat helmet is losing his patience with the tiny woman staring at his chest and flatly refusing to evacuate from the Ukrainian front. Whistling shells have just resumed smashing into buildings across the war-shattered industrial city of Lysychansk. Angelina Abakumova stands a little closer to her two little children at a shelter where she has spent the past months living in a pitch-black bunker and does not budge. Policeman Viktor Levchenko points at the sky in exasperation and tries to coax the mother into an armoured evacuation truck waiting to make a mad dash past Russian artillery positions and to a slightly safer part of Ukraine. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES