A family flees the fighting. The sign says "Children". Yahoo/AFP
Residents of Eastern Ukraine are fleeing the fighting. Yahoo/AFP Heavy fighting has had an impact on civilians living in the war zone. People are fleeing to Russia and to southern Ukraine. People are sometimes fleeing with no supplies.
My Comment:
A good article by AFP. Read it all. It shows the human impact of the story. And that's something that is being ignored in the media right now, at least for the Ukrainian civil war. I know that these families stories won't have an impact on geopolitics, but the stories should be told. It's not a new or unique story though. Civilians suffer in every single war. But for whatever reason, the impact in this particular war, especially compared to the conflicts in Gaza, Syria and Iraq, have been largely ignored by the media. At least that's my perception.
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