During the long months of Russian occupation in Izyum, up to sixty people lived in Andriy Pleshan's cellar. Among them was Nyka, a baby of just two months old at the time whose clothes remain in the basement. "The parents were feeding her baby formula instead of milk" says Pleshan, who recalls searches carried out by occupying soldiers, "they were looking for bruises on the shoulder, because if you shoot a gun you have that sort of mark". Izyum, a town in eastern Ukraine, and home to 45,000 inhabitants before the war, was retaken by Ukrainian forces in mid-September, and has lived in relative peace since, unlike other liberated towns closer to the front line. Pleshan has, however, not left his basement where he stays with his dogs and cats, "today you worry when something falls over, you get nervous." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES