Artyom, 10, poses near his drawings hanging on the walls of a shelter in Donetsk’s Kiyevski district, on February 5, 2015 -© AFP / by Simon Valmary
DONETSK (UKRAINE): As the shelling came closer to 10-year-old Artyom’s neighbourhood, he was forced to swap his local playground for a bunker — just like children across rebel-held east Ukraine.
Whenever the boom of artillery bombardments echoes over the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, Artyom’s grandmother Lyudmila Tarasova quickly grabs him and hurries down to an underground shelter by their apartment.
But with fighting having intensified in east Ukraine for the past 10 days, that survival reflex …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
