His shed was destroyed and his level of anger at both Moscow and Kyiv for failing to negotiate a truce has ratcheted up another notch.

The air in his wooden house feels heavy because all the windows have been shuttered for weeks to limit the dangers posed by exploding glass.

“The Russians have now pulled back from Kyiv so to the people there the war feels like it is over,” Oleynik fumed.

“If the people in Kyiv were still experiencing what we are experiencing here, everything would be different. I blame both governments, both sides. We don’t matter to them.”