Nothing moves in the Ukrainian city once known as the Soviet Union’s ‘capital of glass’.
Kostiantynivka’s streets, buckled and deformed from years of artillery fire, missiles and bombs, are deserted. Its houses lie crumpled in ruins.
The factories that gave this faded industrial titan its moniker – and forged Lenin’s crystal sarcophagus and the ruby–red stars that still adorn the Kremlin – lie abandoned. Or so it seems.
‘Look at the screen,’ Volodymyr says, gesturing to live, full colour images from an observation drone that hovers hundreds of metres above in the eastern region of Donetsk.
‘It looks like an empty city – but
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