In Ukraine's war-torn east, locals fear poverty more than Russia
The apartment buildings in Novotoshkivs'ke, Ukraine, are falling apart, the glass windows shattered and garbage littering the streets outside. The city is in decay. The war that broke out in 2014 in Ukraine’s east has claimed more than 13,000 lives, but the conflict is not the only reason for Novotoshkivs'ke’s condition. “Of course, the war has a huge effect here, but the city firstly died when the local coal mine closed,” Oleksij Bobchenko, 34, the head of civil and military state administration in Hirs’ke District, told Euronews. “Many cities around here will suffer a similar fa...
Source: euronews.com