The ongoing threat and involvement from Russia in the Eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk are still a fact. The EU and several international organisations are aware of the deteriorating situation in the conflict zone, yet despite the intention to help, the humanitarian relief policy in Ukraine is extremely bureaucratic.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
EurActiv: Life in Ukraine’s conflict zone
This file photo taken on August 16, 2016 shows Sasha, 10, standing in a bomb shelter in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, where he hides with his mother Elena.
Fancy restaurants and trendy boutiques stand side by side stuffy bomb shelters where survivers tremble in eastern Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels' capital city of Donetsk. Some parts of the heart of the former Soviet republic's coal mining country make it hard to believe that a 29-month war has been raging around them at the cost of more than 9,600 lives and an even deeper rift in ties between Moscow and the West. (AFP)
