"The city began to empty. I lived near a supermarket. There used to be crowds of people all the time, but when the store closed, there was no soul around. It was very scary. Only 6 people are left to live in our 100-apartment building," says Halyna Sydorenko, a resident of Bakhmut. The woman and her mother left at the end of September 2022. Back then, there was no water or electricity in the city, only continuous shelling.
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