Cold, poor and hungry, Dudareva is among the masses of people trapped by fighting between the government and Russian-backed militias, reliant on outside help that often fails to arrive.
Anger she once reserved for the Ukrainian armed forces shelling the city is now directed at the separatist government.
The U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has been sounding the alarm over a daily worsening crisis across the region, where fighting has raged since April.
Help is thin on the ground, although it is often promised.
Since the summer, Russia has dispatched 11 columns of large white aid trucks with food and other …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
