Every day, about 10,000 mostly elderly residents cross the partly destroyed bridge over Siversky Donets River at the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint.
This is the only crossing point between government-controlled Luhansk Oblast and the Russian-occupied portion.
Most of those who make the crossing are senior citizens who live in the Russian-controlled area but regularly travel to the government side to collect their pensions, or do paperwork to keep receiving them.
