(Agence France-Presse) Nina Nikiforovna, a pensioner in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, took up begging recently.
“I never thought I’d live long enough to know such shame,” she says, but she needs pills for her heart condition and after several months without receiving her pension, she saw no alternative.
Hundreds of thousands of pensioners in the pro-Russian east of Ukraine, already caught up in seven months of conflict between government and rebel forces, have lost their only source of income.
