Here's How Hard Daily Life Has Gotten In Ukraine's War-Torn East [PHOTOS]

Residents of Slaviansk face shortages of basic resources.

Many are forced to collect water from communal pumping stations.

Shelling has caused significant damage to the city's infrastructure ...

... And has wrecked some houses as well.

Shrapnel from the explosions have caused collateral damage throughout the city, scarring many building facades and windows.

Local residents have started sleeping in makeshift shelters in school basements during fighting between government and rebel forces.

The Ukrainian government claims that the rebels fire weapons from residential areas, slowing down the army's counter-measures and causing regrettable collateral damage.

Here, a boy looks at a shrapnel hole in the door of a residential building in Slaviansk.

Residents have tried to flee the fighting any way they can.

Both rebel and government checkpoints surround separatist-held cities in eastern Ukraine.

In Donetsk, the separatist Russian Orthodox Army mans checkpoints and asks all drivers entering or leaving the city to present their passports.

Business in Donetsk has fallen off drastically since the rebels took control. Here, a woman walks across an empty parking lot in front of a closed Land Rover showroom.

In central Donetsk, another woman waits to rent out pedal cars to whatever few interested customers she can find.

A number of families who have fled the fighting have taken temporary refuge in dormitories in the town of Ilovaisk.

Here, children of families who have fled the fighting play in one of the temporary accommodations available in Ilovaisk. The way things are going, people displaced by the fighting in eastern Ukraine might not be able to go home for a while.

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