GENEVA - Fighting between government forces and pro-Russian armed groups is claiming an average of 13 lives a day, and after nine months of conflict, the approach of winter has created life-threatening conditions for many civilians in eastern Ukraine, the United Nations reported on Dec. 15.
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New York Times: Hardships grow for millions in eastern Ukraine, UN report says
Baisa Vak-Voya (R), official representative of the UN refugee agency ( UNHCR,) in Russia, meets Ukraine's refugees in the town of Krassny Desant close to city of Rostov-on-Don on Dec. 15, 2014.
