The humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders has sounded the alarm about the dramatic situation in the city of Gorlovka (in Ukraine’s east), which is being shelled regularly, Itar Tass reports.
"The city isn’t in ruins, as the shells and rockets don’t destroy buildings completely, though smaller houses in the suburbs can collapse. But all the buildings have shattered windows - an issue when the temperature goes down to 10 below zero at night. Yesterday we passed a children’s playground with scorch marks on the ground from where a shell had exploded. And there are bomb craters everywhere, including one right in front of the children’s hospital. But you hardly see any children. Most of the families with small children have left. It feels like a ghost town. Most of the shops are closed, there are no cafes or restaurants. If people have to go out, they walk very swiftly. No one stands around unless they’re waiting for a bus," Itar Tass quotes one of the surgeons as saying.
