Lyudmila Denisenko endured weeks of deadly shootouts between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian insurgents in her home city of Slovyansk, the epicenter of the separatist conflict ravaging eastern Ukraine.
But when a children’s hospital was shelled two weeks ago, her patience finally snapped.
She and her family fled for the relative safety of Izyum, a small town 50 kilometers northwest of Slovyansk.
“We came here with nothing,” she recently told RFE/RL in Izyum’s City Hall, where she was applying for temporary accommodation and basic supplies. “We could no longer stay. The children’s hospital was bombed, the train station was bombed, the …read more
Source: Voice of America
