KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — On the day that U.S. President Donald Trump got on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, heavy blasts could be heard in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
I had traveled from Kiev to Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, where people’s lives have once again been upended by fighting and the toll of almost three years of conflict can be read in the faces of the unsmiling children.
Families were fleeing the frontlines, a region home to more than four million people, and seeking refuge in the towns of Mariupol and Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast.
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Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
