Even during gunfire and freezing winters, Sergei* and his 83-year-old mother always had their rose garden to lift their spirits. Then, one day in 2016, a shell reduced it to ash. Now, for them and millions of others in eastern Ukraine, it will be a struggle to make it through the winter months.
Plummeting temperatures and conflict have led UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to step up distributions of aid, including clothing, fuel and cash, to the most vulnerable.
