Hundreds of abandoned bicycles in a small warehouse in the town of Zelenodolsk, near Ukraine's southern front line, tell the stories of their owners, who were forced to flee Russia's invasion. They come in all colours: green, red, black, blue… One has a knitted saddle cover, another a small pouch attached to the frame, many others look rusty and tested by time. "People were running away with what they could take," says municipal worker, Vitaliy Rekhlitsky, "you could see that there were bags on the bikes."

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