Other buildings have been less lucky, but recently installed drone nets allow residents to shop at open markets.
However, the nets are effective only against smaller drones and offer no protection from larger Shaheds and glide bombs.
Overall, Ukraine feels the fortress belt is largely holding up against Russian attacks and can resist Moscow's demands to surrender territory.
The defence has given Kyiv time to implement other strategies, notably drone attacks on supply lines to occupied Crimea and the Donbas.
Vadym said: "The enemy is not giving up on trying to storm Lyman. Their task last year was to take Lyman by October.
Then it was by the end of the new year. Then March.
Now, by the end of summer."
Defending one town helps defend the others, though he noted that interconnectedness could be a vulnerability if logistics routes are cut.
At the evacuation centre in Sloviansk, Lyudmilla, 68, and her friend Tatiana had just escaped from a village two miles from Russian lines.
Lyudmilla was exhausted and traumatised.
The day before, a Russian glide bomb hit her house, killing her husband and two other men, and amputating the hand of a neighbour.
"I had just gone into the yard. It was a miracle I wasn't hurt.
For the last two years we have been living in the cellar," she said. "I need to know what happened to my husband.
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I can't rest until I know."
