Christopher J. Miller

A woman takes stock of the damage to an apartment block, hit by shelling in a small town near Debaltseve, Ukraine on February 2, 2015.

Several thousand civilians are trapped on Ukraine’s latest battlefield

Conflict

Heavy fighting is raging once again in eastern Ukraine. After five months of a fragile ceasefire, Ukrainian rebels went on the offensive again a couple of weeks ago, and the Ukrainian army has been fighting them in the town of Debaltseve. But along with the soldiers are several thousand civilians living in squalid conditions in the town.