While some Donetsk residents are trying to leave the occupied zone, newcomers from Russia’s depressed zones are streaming into the Donbas, says Donetsk native Olena Nekrasova (the name has been changed for security reasons).
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Local residents cope with the shelling damages in the house 26 in Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Oblast on Dec. 24, 2016.