Money is running short in the rebel heartland since the government announced this month that it will suspend banking services as it piles on the pressure.
Authorities say they are also withdrawing all state services from rebel areas, although hospital and school workers in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk say it has been a while since they last saw funding anyhow.
Yet if the government of President Petro Poroshenko government hopes to turn people in eastern Ukraine against separatist leadership, the evidence on the ground suggests the strategy may only be hardening their resolve.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
