After months of bitter fighting between Ukraine's army and pro-Russian separatists in the country's east, a significant number of the region's residents have left their homes and sought calm elsewhere. A November 2014 United Nations report revealed that roughly 450,000 Ukrainians fled from the violence-struck areas to other states since fighting intensified in April. Nearly 400,000 of them went to Russia.
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Ukrainian children play with balloons by a portrait of Lenin in a hall of the refugee camp of Krasni Dessant outside the Russian southern city of Rostov-on-Don on Oct. 20, 2014.
