MARINIVKA, Ukraine: Larissa Pogorelka began the year looking forward to seeing her son graduate college and planning for the future with cautious optimism. Now she will end 2014 homeless, after her house was destroyed in the fighting that swept through this region of east Ukraine, and counts herself lucky just to be alive. “Nobody ever expected any of this to happen,” the shopkeeper, 42, told AFP. “My home has burnt down and I am living with my parents. What have I lived for? In one day you can just lose everything.”
Just a few kilometres from the Russian border, Marinivka in …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
