DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — The morning silence is an uneasy prelude to the artillery fire that inevitably follows. Sealed off from the world by war, some inhabitants hesitantly approach visitors for news. There’s no time for anything more than a few words, as soldiers bark instructions at exhausted people boarding evacuation buses with overflowing bags in hand.
On the front lines of Ukraine’s separatist war, despair is deepening for a shrinking population that has been without power, heating and running water for almost two weeks.
The relentless rebel advance on the railway town of Debaltseve is being slowed only by Ukrainian tanks, …read more
Source: KXAN
