When night falls in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, just 20 km (12 miles) from the front line with Russia, police officers cruise through the dark and empty streets, looking for curfew violators, thieves and spies.
The 65,000 people remaining in the eastern industrial city, which before the war had a population of around 150,000, have to stay inside from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m.
Yet over the past week, police say they have found 33 violators: seven suspected spotters for Russian artillery, five looters - and 21 caught drinking alcohol outside in the summer heat.
The front line is just to the northeast and parts of the city have been hit by Russian shell fire. Police know to keep an eye out on office buildings and shelled residential districts that now sit empty.
Poster Comment:
The war is almost over. Russian troops are 12 miles away from Kramatorsk which is the last Ukrainian line of defense. They are just a little bit further from Nikolayev which protects Odessa in the south. Russia will give his frontline a rest in 2 weeks. Meanwhile the Ukraine is drafting men off the streets up to age 70 giving them no training and sending them to the frontlines. A Ukrainian journalist said in open letters to Zelensky that he is embedded with troops is a small area who are on the receiving end of 6,500 artillery shells every day. That had defense fortifications but that much artillery will tear it apart. The men who dies and are wounded cannot be removed from their trenches.
NATO is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.