International monitors warned on Friday that around 600,000 impoverished people could be left without water or heat in war-scarred eastern Ukraine this winter.
The words of caution came with few signs of an end to the 31-month-long conflict between Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists that has killed nearly 10,000 people in the EU’s backyard.
Alexander Hug of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s special monitoring mission for Ukraine said the situation in the war zone in the east of the country was becoming dire as temperatures turned freezing in the ex-Soviet state.
“Urgent steps needed as 600,000 people in the …read more
Source: Gulf times
