Ukraine's frontline cities filled with dread and defiance


  • World
  • Wednesday, 01 Oct 2025

An Ukrainian armored vehicle with a protective anti-drone cage drives on a road, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, outside Sloviansk, Ukraine September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -In his new clothes store in the heart of Ukraine's frontline city of Kramatorsk, Maksym Lysenko suddenly stops talking and listens. "There," he says, leaning towards the window looking onto the street. "It's going to dive. It's going to drop."

Lysenko had heard the high-pitched whine of a Russian suicide drone. Moments later there is a loud explosion. "Boom! This is Kramatorsk!" he says with a smile. "This is Kramatorsk."

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