Nowhere To Run In Eastern Ukraine --New York Times
DONETSK, Ukraine — Teachers preside over half-empty classrooms. Cars breeze through streets once chronically choked with traffic. Restaurant windows are boarded up.
Officially, a cease-fire has been in effect in the rebel areas of eastern Ukraine since September. But with war once again looming, and artillery blasts regularly shaking the night in the capital, Donetsk, things are far from returning to normal. Another clear sign of that is the obvious depopulation of much of the rebel-held territory.
Though exact estimates vary, roughly 1.5 million people have left the rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, out of a prewar population of about 4.5 million. United Nations figures suggest that about half went to Russia and half to other areas of Ukraine.
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My Comment: Kudos to the New York Times for finally catching up on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine. The Times should stick around .... with winter just around the corner .... this situation is only going to get worse.
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