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Constant artillery exchanges, shelling, gunfire, drones buzzing in the sky. The everyday situation in Bakhmut is dire for the 7,000 people still living in the hotly contested city, which has seen most of its pre-war population of 75,000 leave. But those remaining wont' leave. "Only a dummy wouldn't be afraid," says Nadiya Burdinska. "If God wants it, I'll stay alive".