In villages along the Oskil river in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, residents still remember a time when it was an idyll where families would swim, picnic and make memories. Now, nearly three years into the Russian invasion, Kremlin forces have brought panic and destruction to its banks. "It is, as they say, an artery for our region," says 80-year-old Vasyl Chepurnyi, as he takes a train from the village of Osynovo to Shevchenkove to buy medicine. "We can't go to Oskil anymore." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES