Residents of Dmytrivka, near Kyiv, have ventured to the outskirts of their village for the first to discover a swathe of devastation and desperation left behind by the fighting.

The Kremlin recently announced they would be pulling back from Ukraine's capital and refocusing on the fight in the east of the country.

Despite this, there has been constant shelling on the capital and warnings that the Russians could be just falling back to regroup and plan a new offensive.

But on Friday residents of Kyiv managed to access the ring road around the capital and some of the outlying villages that had been occupied by Russians for the first time in weeks.

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