: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Civilians flee east Ukraine town as fighting intensifies


A month of relative quiet in eastern Ukraine was shattered in early January by full-blown fighting as the separatists attempted to claw back additional territory from government hands.

“City police officers cannot go out to the scenes of destruction because of the ceaseless artillery strikes,” Vyacheslav Abroskin, head of police for the Donetsk region, said in a statement Saturday afternoon.

With the government apparently unable to handle all the people wishing to leave, volunteer groups are trying to fill the gap.

Roads running west and east are controlled by rebels, leaving the northbound road the only remaining corridor of relative safety.

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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