Refugees seek shelter in Russia as Ukraine forces tighten grip on rebels
- 10 years ago
The central market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhanks...on fire after government shelling.
Near the other rebel-held city of Donetsk, in Makiiva, a courthouse burns after shelling there.
Both cities have seen artillery strikes by government forces -- tightening their squeeze on pro-Russian separatists as they try to end a four-month-long conflict that's killed more than 2,000 people.
Scores of refugees have fled the fighting, some of them...to here...
A camp in Russia's Rostov region across the border.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) REFUGEE AT CAMP, MINER, ROMAN DUBCHAK, 40-YEARS-OLD, SAYING:
"This is not my war. I didn't order it. Neither did my mother, or my mother-in-law, or my father in law, or all of my children. We've left behind everything we had. Maybe there's nothing left there."
These may be the lucky ones.
It's estimated that about 70 people per day are now killed in the fighting.
And relief agencies say residents of Luhansk
Near the other rebel-held city of Donetsk, in Makiiva, a courthouse burns after shelling there.
Both cities have seen artillery strikes by government forces -- tightening their squeeze on pro-Russian separatists as they try to end a four-month-long conflict that's killed more than 2,000 people.
Scores of refugees have fled the fighting, some of them...to here...
A camp in Russia's Rostov region across the border.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) REFUGEE AT CAMP, MINER, ROMAN DUBCHAK, 40-YEARS-OLD, SAYING:
"This is not my war. I didn't order it. Neither did my mother, or my mother-in-law, or my father in law, or all of my children. We've left behind everything we had. Maybe there's nothing left there."
These may be the lucky ones.
It's estimated that about 70 people per day are now killed in the fighting.
And relief agencies say residents of Luhansk