DONETSK, Ukraine—At the Trudovskoi bus station in Donetsk, the gossip these days focuses on whose house has been hit by shelling and where you can get food handouts.
Day and night, mortars and rockets rain down on the rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine — mainly in the city’s outlying districts, where the poorest people live.
“One shell fell, then another, and then yet another. One hit the Azerbaijani family’s house, remember?” 64-year-old Nikolai Skripko told his 38-year-old neighbor, Sveta Banina, counting the damaged houses on his fingers.
Death bulletins have become almost daily fare since last spring, when Russian-backed rebels took up arms, …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
