NEWSWATCH The Herald (Scotland): No daughter can be restored. No leg can be replaced: our report from the frontline of the war in Eastern Ukraine.

The Herald and David Pratt examine some of the human costs of the conflict in Ukraine.

Those who could afford it, or had somewhere else to go, got out when they could.

 

But often the most vulnerable — the elderly; infirm; poor; disabled — had no choice but to sit out the violence engulfing their community. Nadezhda Kalashnikova’s husband, Anatoliy, makes the point that some 80 per cent of the residents of Triokhizbenka have work elsewhere, meaning that with the restrictions on movement imposed by the fighting people are left with no income and reliant on what meagre savings, if any, they might have.

Click here for “No daughter can be restored. No leg can be replaced: our report from the frontline of the war in Eastern Ukraine” – The Herald (Scotland) – David Pratt – April 12, 2015