The wounds are raw in the capital of eastern Ukraine’s pro-Russia insurgency and its prognosis not encouraging, even without the artillery barrages that terrified the city during the height of fighting between separatists and Ukrainian forces.
Only three years ago, Donetsk was proud of the glitter it showed to spectators at the European soccer championships.
Ukraine clamped down on the rebel-held parts of the Donetsk region and the neighboring separatist Luhansk region with a choking economic blockade; pensions and social benefits were cut off and business contacts frozen.
Humanitarian convoys from Russia bring in food and medicine, and international groups also scramble to …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
