Morning life of Donetsk city center

This is what the city center of Dontesk looks like in the early morning, the public transport are still working properly. City workers are keeping the streets clean and the city as beautiful as they can even if cars carrying armed men patrol the streets and sporadic artillery fires make them self hear day and night.

City workers gardening on Artema Street

City workers keeping the streets neat 

Woman walking out of an Orthodox church

Woman feeding pigeon out side of one the few store still open in Donetsk

Pedestrian looking over merchants  

City workers pushing their equipment up hill 

Civilian getting into a trolebus

The surrounding of Donetsk Airport

Woman carrying a bag of groceries with a young child walking next to her

Housing located less than a kilometer away from Donetsk airport

Little girl picking up some fruit from a tree after she and the two other women tried to find cover behind it when mortars were fired at the airport

From the right to the left , Ruslana, Nadia and one of their neighbour talking about the condition they lived for the past month. The electricity, gas, water and internet are still in service a young man from the city bring them food on a regular basics. They fear their houses will be robed if they leave so they made the choice to stay regardless of the regular shelling and shots happening around the airport.

Ihor showing a cartridge he found in the sorounding of his house 

Man walking down the desert Stratonavtiv Street 

Checkpoint located on Zlinta Street, the road leading to the airport

A DPR soldier going by the nickname of "Rameo" displaying the remain of an explosive device. This man is from Sloviansk ans has been a firefight for 10 years, he is now a soldier of the Donetsk People Republic.

Rameo posing with one of the flags flying over his checkpont. He said that it was really difficult for him as he was used to save lives and he has now taken it away on several during the battles of Sloviansk 

Solider from the DPR just after he took a shot in direction of the airport

DPR solider firing with his light machine gun in direction of the airport.

Memorial in honor of the people who fought during the Great Patriotic War (World War 2)

Tags inside an vacant building near the airport 

Sunset on the neighbourhood located on the south edge of Donetsk Airport

A sad day for Donetsk

People waiting for the bus as the sound of the airport's bombing resound in the street of Donetsk

The calm remain as shots coming from the Sergey Prokofiev Airport can be heard inside Donetsk's Train Station

Underground of Donetsk train station situated less than 2km from  the Sergey Prokofiev Airport disputed by the Ukrainian Army and the soldier from the Donetsk People's Republic

A man lying dead on the side of the train station facing the Sergey Prokofiev Airport, which seems to be the global direction where the shoots that killed him were coming from 

Blood stains on the ground after the corps of the victim was finally taken away. The body stayed for at least a couple of hours before being evacuated 

A man standing next to an elderly woman who was shot in the head. More than an hour and a half after this pictures was taken the body is still laying on the street, at least two ambulances came there without taking her corps away