KIEV — On the second floor of Kiev’s central train station, in a cavernous waiting room full of red leather couches, Nina, a portly 57-year-old retiree, sat with all of her worldly belongings packed up in a mountain of bags at her feet. Nina (who didn’t want to share her last name) hails from Horlivka, a town in Donetsk Oblast that is now under rebel control, and it was her first time in Kiev. “Sitting around here, it looks like everything is fine, but over there people are getting their legs ripped off!” she said, looking wildly about the room …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
