: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Ukraine rebel city residents live underground for months


DONETSK, Ukraine – Ever since fierce shelling in east Ukraine’s rebel stronghold Donetsk forced her to flee her home four months ago, Svetlana, a grandmother, has been living underground.”I’ve spent four months in this bomb shelter,” she said, cradling her 19-month-old grandson.”Whenever I go out, I risk being killed by a shell.”Standing around her in the musty basement of a 1930s apartment block are some 100 other people, mainly women, who have sought refuge from the fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels.To reach the shelter you have to enter a small wooden hut and climb down a few metres …read more

Source: AsiaOne

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