Tanya Lokshina: War in eastern Ukraine brings lasting misery for elderly
An elderly women makes her way through the deserted roads in the frontline neighbourhood of Jabunki by the airport in Donetsk on April 19, 2015 in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
The armed conflict that swept eastern Ukraine in 2014 and is still ongoing displaced close to a million people, who fled the fighting. Among those left behind, trapped in the war zone, were those too frail, too sick, or too poor to flee. Many spent months hiding from shelling in dark, damp basements, with little food and practically no medical aid as explosions shook the world outside.
