Under the shade of a giant oak tree, Lena, 37, wondered why she and her family left Luhansk.
"Why did we finally leave?" repeated Lena with incredulity, before listing off all that had happened.
After the referendum in May, which attempted to legitimise the self-styled "Luhansk People's Republic", Lena and her husband thought things would quiet down. After all, Ukraine's pro-Russian separatists were just a ragtag group of bandits, they reasoned.
