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Sunday, March 1, 2015

IMAGES FROM UKRAINE'S WAR ZONE - LIKE TIME WARPING INTO WORLD WAR TWO - Destruction, desolation, refugees abandoning their hometowns or being housed in ancient railroad cars - Family living in underground bunker - Surreal scenes in today's Europe.

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The images coming out of the war between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists seem those of World War II documentaries.  

Shocking images from the war zone in Europe.

Waiting for lunch: Pavel Makeev, age 5, peeks his head through a door way while waiting for his lunch to be cooked in Donetsk, Ukraine
UNDERGROUND - Waiting for lunch: Pavel Makeev, age 5, peeks his head through a door way while waiting for his lunch to be cooked in Donetsk, Ukraine

On the outskirts of Donetsk, people carry plastic bags filled with their personal belongings from a burning apartment block
On the outskirts of Donetsk, people carry plastic bags filled with their personal belongings from a burning apartment block

The shelling which destroyed this house actually intensified in the days after a ceasefire deal was signed in Minsk on February 12
All that's left of a building.  Entire towns are in ruins.
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Underground existence: Beneath the city, the young children are safer from the constant threat of stray bullets and artillery fire 
Underground existence: Beneath the city, the young children are safer from the constant threat of stray bullets and artillery fire 

Makeshift bed: Most of the beds consist of pieces of material and furniture salvaged from the war-torn city above
Underground:  Makeshift bed: Most of the beds consist of pieces of material and furniture salvaged from the war-torn city above


Harsh environment: People have been living in this basement since June 2014, shortly after the conflict in Ukraine began
Basement life.

People board a bus to leave the town of Debaltseve, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. Fighting between government and Russian-backed separatist forces in eas...
 People board a bus to leave the town of Debaltseve, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. Fighting between government and Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine has intensified in recent days as rebels seek to encircle the town of Debaltseve, which hosts a strategically important railway hub. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) 

An elderly woman has to be helped to her feet after discovering that the apartment block where she lives has been damaged by shelling 
An elderly woman has to be helped to her feet after discovering that the apartment block where she lives has been damaged by shelling 

Devastation: A woman cries out in anger after her apartment block in Donetsk is set on fire as a result of shelling. Fighting between the two sides in Ukraine has intensified in recent weeks 
Devastation: A woman cries out in anger after her apartment block in Donetsk is set on fire as a result of shelling. Fighting between the two sides in Ukraine has intensified in recent weeks

  Firefighters work to extinguish the blaze at a residential block. Today, the Ukrainian national guard has launched an offensive against pro-Russian separatists near the southeastern port city of Mariupol
Trying to contain a fire while families are left homeless.

Keeping warm: Pensioners and parents with young children caught in the firing line between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels backed by Moscow rifle through piles of donated clothes in Soviet-era army tents
Keeping warm: Pensioners and parents with young children caught in the firing line between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels backed by Moscow rifle through piles of donated clothes in Soviet-era army tents

 Childhood: Parents, with their children in tow, are housed in dusty old railway cars, stinking of coal-heated boilers and barely functional toilets
 Childhood: Parents, with their children in tow, are housed in dusty old railway cars, stinking of coal-heated boilers and barely functional toilets

These relics of the Soviet Union’s vast railway network are, for now, temporary homes of hundreds of families
These relics of the Soviet Union’s vast railway network are, for now, temporary homes of hundreds of families

A house ruined by fighting in the city of Debaltseve. The strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine was stormed by Moscow-backed separatists two weeks ago
 A house ruined by fighting in the city of Debaltseve. The strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine was stormed by Moscow-backed separatists two weeks ago

Not a single intact house remains in the village, where even the trees are covered with shrapnel
Even the trees are covered with shrapnel.

The front of this Vuhlehirsk home is pockmarked by shrapnel after intense fighting in the town
The front of this Vuhlehirsk home is pockmarked by shrapnel after intense fighting in the town

A Grad rocket is lodged in the wall of a building in the jail of Chornukhyne, east of Debaltseve. Only four of over 300 inmates are left in the jail after it was evacuated following shelling during the battle for Debaltseve
A Grad rocket is lodged in the wall of a building in the jail of Chornukhyne, east of Debaltseve. Only four of over 300 inmates are left in the jail after it was evacuated following shelling during the battle for Debaltseve

The remains of a house in Nikishino, located 20 km from Debaltseve, and abandoned by the Ukrainian military four days ago after separatist forces attacked it for several days.
The remains of a house in Nikishino, located 20 km from Debaltseve, and abandoned by the Ukrainian military four days ago after separatist forces attacked it for several days.

Rockets are fired towards separatist forces in Ukraine. President Obama has signaled he will wait for the results of high-stakes talks on Ukraine before deciding whether to arm the Kiev government
Ukrainian rockets aimed at separatists.

A damaged Ukrainian army tank is left abandoned in a wrecked petrol station outside Debaltseve 
Abandoned Ukrainian government tank outside the city of Debaltseve.

Pro-Kiev forces unload Grad rockets from a truck before launching them towards pro-Russian separatist forces outside Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine. More than 5,400 people have so far died in the conflict
Ukrainian government soldiers unloading shells to hit separatists.

Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974786/Taking-shelter-underground-Boy-5-waits-lunch-bunker-family-living-nine-months-taking-shelter-Donetsk-comes-heavy-fire.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973593/Shocking-pictures-scale-destruction-inside-Debaltseve-seen-fiercest-fighting-Ukraine.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2947372/My-family-brave-stupid-Ukrainian-refugees-tell-desperation-flee-town-surrounded-Putin-backed-rebels.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2934296/Civilians-flee-east-Ukraine-town-fighting-intensifies.html

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