Debaltseve Residents Seek Shelter Below Ground As Clashes Rage

Residents of Debaltseve haul a small supply of drinking water from a tanker truck.

Drinking water is distributed in Debaltseve.

Smoke rises from the rubble of houses destroyed by shelling.

Valentina Pavlovna walks past a crater left by recent shelling as she goes to visit her sick aunt.

Snow melted over a fire provides another source of water.

Many residents have sought refuge in their basements as clashes continue around the town.

Humanitarian workers deliver blankets to Debaltseve.

Residents charge their mobile phones from a diesel generator.

A Ukrainian serviceman

A military ambulance leaves the hospital in Artemivsk, near Debaltseve.

Oleh, a serviceman, was wounded while his unit was retreating from Uhlehirsk.