Next year, the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine will enter its fifth year. The conflict has taken 3,000 civilian lives, displaced 1.5 million people and left 3.5 million in need – more than 30 percent of whom are above the age of 60.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Al Jazeera: Ukraine – the cold reality of Europe’s forgotten conflict
Local residents queue for hot food distributed by Ukrainian rescue services in the flashpoint eastern town of Avdiyivka, north of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 3, 2017.
