Renovated and brightly decorated with money provided by German donors, its classrooms were opening the doors of education to 120 pupils at a time.
Widespread, indiscriminate rocket attacks destroyed the school, many homes and the local hospital.
Novosvitlivka’s great misfortune was to lie next to a highway used by separatist rebels to supply their stronghold in the city of Luhansk.
A cease-fire of sorts has taken partial effect in eastern Ukraine, offering some respite in an increasingly bitter conflict between pro-Russian separatists and government forces.
Dozens of people at a time took refuge in the dank basement of the local kindergarten, a sturdy Soviet-era …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle