On the frontline of the Russian war in Ukraine lies the occupied town of Oleshky.
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Its 2,000 remaining residents are effectively cut off in no-man's land, slowly starving and freezing. Their plight has, for Ukrainians, become a symbol of the hardship of occupation.
We spoke to people who made it out alive on foot, running the gauntlet of mines and drones, before travelling through Russia and Belarus and back to Ukraine itself.
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