There’s no time for anything more than a few words, as soldiers bark instructions at exhausted people boarding evacuation buses with overflowing bags in hand.
On the front lines of Ukraine’s separatist war, despair is deepening for a shrinking population that has been without power, heating and running water for almost two weeks.
The relentless rebel advance on the railway town of Debaltseve is being slowed only by Ukrainian tanks, cannons and rocket launchers.
Several rickety government-run buses arrive to ferry people out daily, although those cowering in basements often remain oblivious to this method of flight.
Tanks parked in the charred remains of …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle