Leaning against his car, Ukrainian soldier Yuri is fresh off a seven-day stint on the eastern front, where he says "nothing has changed", despite the truce declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The FPVs are still flying, the shells are still flying," he says. The three-day truce was announced by Moscow to coincide with Russia's World War II commemorations and is due to last until Saturday evening. "We don't really believe in it," says Olena, a resident near the front, "it seems to me that when they started talking about a ceasefire, it got even worse." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES