I’ve watched the front move closer to Kramatorsk for three and a half years, but it is still difficult to comprehend what is happening to this place.

A few weeks ago, I got a call from energy workers in Donbas asking if I wanted to come and film how they are keeping the lights on as the fighting gets closer. I couldn’t say no. So I packed the car and headed east.

I wanted to show what Kramatorsk actually feels like right now. A city preparing for something everyone knows is coming, while thousands of ordinary people continue going to work, repairing things, opening shops, driving buses, making coffee and somehow keeping the place alive.