After returning from Ukraine, where Yury fought in the Russian army, the 39-year-old is trying to adapt to living at home again, but his memories still haunt him. "You don't see everything on TV," he says, "everything there is actually more serious, more scary, more horrible". Yury was based in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine captured by Russia after one of the bloodiest battles of the offensive. "The main thing is to survive and to win," he says, "that's what everyone's thinking about." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES