Seventy-eight-year-old Galina lives in a city on the front line separating Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed armed groups in eastern Ukraine. Before the fighting began five years ago, collecting her Ukrainian pension was as simple as a five-minute walk to the bank.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Human Rights Watch: Discrimination against war-zone pensioners in eastern Ukraine
People, mainly elderly pensioners, wait for a bus to leave the war-torn eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Nov. 25, 2016 to get their pension payments on territory controlled by Ukrainian government forces.
