Former hairdresser walks 20km along a mined 'road of death' to escape the starving Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky

Fewer than 2,000 people now cling on in Oleshky, a Dnipro River city that was once home to almost 24,000. There is no electricity, heating or running water, and food and medicine have barely reached them for months. Ukrainian heavy bomber drones are dropping supply parcels into the city. Ukraine's foreign minister has called it a 'death trap' with starving residents.

The 40-year-old escapee said 'every step could have been my last' on the route out.

'There is nothing left in Oleshky,' she said. 'No food, no supplies, no medical care.'