and declared the breakaway republics of donetsk and luhansk., just 30 kilometres from donetsk, found itself in a war zone. gunfire. explosion. at the beginning of the conflict, it was captured by the dnr forces and retaken by the ukrainian army four months later. the frontline runs north—east of marinka's centre. queues to cross to the other side can last hours, even days. this de facto border has divided families and created deep rifts between former neighbours. the divisions here in marinka are really quite complicated. these labels — pro—russian, pro— ukrainian — they don't really mean very much. people are anyway very scared to say which side they actually support and, above all else, they want what is best for them and their families. they want the fighting to stop, they want peace to return to this town. bread is subsidised but, to cover costs, the bakery has to make a small profit. 0leg and a fellow christian pastor started the bakery in 2016. they realised people needed physical as well as spiritual sustenance. now he spends his days in

documenting fighting like this-- firing from howitzers, nighttime attacks on the water system in donetsk, and mortar explosions in the town of avdiivka. so, at least, as far as ukraine is concerned, this is no cold war. >> it is a very active war. we see on a daily basis thousands of cease-fire violations. and we continue to retrace the suffering of the civilian population that often live very closely or actually on the contact line between positions. >> reporter: who is breaking the cease-fire? you're on the ground, what have you seen? >> we know that both sides do not adhere to the cease fire. both sides maintain positions too close to one another. and both sides do keep heavy weapons in areas where they have agreed these weapons-- tanks, mortars, artillery, multiple launch-rocket systems-- should not be. this is one example of an area where we see fighting. >> reporter: we decided to go to avdiivka to see the front line ourselves. our trip began with a six-hour train ride southeast from kiev to the town of sloviansk. in the early days of the war, this road from the train station was d

of rely on aid agencies and charities for food and water yelena came across the front line from donetsk six months ago looking for work. jobs were scarce in this region before the war and now they are even more difficult to find i mean you can do you know all this when you could not get even with them usually the mutombo didn't mean your thoughts to you coming. i didn't you know using it on you but compelled like you to do people guns can you post your crimes could be instantly we see mrs so much liberal go to this new plan you cookies that you got. to put not stick with but you just didn't so much up it's not something. that she wants to miss that's when there's never a seemingly there's no book or a you. don't miss that she children don't you just come because of and usually when you mothers to rebuild my new moves it really gets not if anyone. you hear a lot of heavy machine gunfire now this neighborhood somewhere around this neighborhood last night there was a lot of heavy shelling now your forces here are not allowing this any closer to the front line. but we've been speaking to pe

the legislation describes the temporarily—occupied regions of donetsk and luhansk.ate. a fierce storm that wreaked havoc across parts of western europe on thursday has now crossed to poland. winds from storm friederike reached up to more than 200 kilometres an hour, causing severe disruptions to travel and plunging thousands into darkness. at least eight people are thought to have been killed. anna holligan reports. a storm so ferocious, so indiscriminate, it rips through homes and wrecks journeys. frederick was forecast, but few were expect these hurricane—strength gusts. more than 300 flights were cancelled at amsterdam schiphol airport. some pilots did try to land. but gave up. 0thers gave their passengers and memorable experience. the landing was rough, not the roughest i have ever had, but a lot of bummps. was rough, not the roughest i have ever had, but a lot of bummpsm was bumpy. many people were throwing up. iwas was bumpy. many people were throwing up. i was worried about my little daughter, that she was going to be sick. but we were 0k. daughter, that she

thousands have been killed in the conflict between british backed kiev forces and those living in donetsk in the hands following the nato backed coup d'etat in ukraine in twenty fourteen and just hours before the pope appealed for peace in the eastern ukraine there has been renewed fighting in recent days one journalist who has tried to eliminate the real foundations of nato powers defacto backing fascism in europe's largest country is ball perry he died on saturday after a series of strokes and the founder of consortium news was always clear about ukraine being one of the front lines of what know him chomsky calls the manufacture of consent i've been to a journalist in the city since one nine hundred seventy seven. i worked for the so should press the newsweek and public broadcasting from online as well as starting consortium news dot com and as an investigative web site. and i have to say that in all these years i can't think of a time when there has been a group thing as single minded as the one we've seen over the past year or so regarding the ukraine crisis when accepting the i.m.f.