that of someone living in one of the Russian-occupied areas of the country. We are calling her Maria. As the US leads efforts to negotiate peace in Ukraine, those living under Russian occupation face a brutal, repressive future. Already, the Kremlin has put in place severe restrictions designed to stamp out Ukrainian identity, including harsh punishments for anyone who dares to disagree. Now, there are fears that Kyiv could be forced to give up at least some of the territory occupied by Russia as part of a potential ceasefire or peace deal. Ukrainian officials reject this, but Moscow says that at the very least it wants to fully capture four Ukrainian regions it partly controls - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia - in addition to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.Due to repression by the Russian authorities, speaking to the media and even your own relatives in occupied territories can be fraught with danger. The Kremlin has also launched a wide-ranging campaign to force Ukrainians in occupied territories to take Russian passports. Evidence suggests that Ukrainians are being denied healthcare and free movement unless they take up Russian citizenship. Maria (not her real name) said she was a member of an all-female underground resistance group waging a campaign of peaceful resistance in those territories, mainly by distributing leaflets and newsletters. In an interview with the BBC's Today programme, she used a Ukrainian proverb to describe the danger she is facing: "You have fear in your eyes, but your hands are still doing it. Of course it's scary. The atmosphere of fear and suspicion is such that when I was trying to contact residents of occupied Mariupol, I was accused of being a Russian journalist. You won't like what I've got to say. (BBC)