Many towns across eastern Ukraine's hard-hit Donetsk region, like Lyman and Chasiv Yar, have seen dramatic falls in population, with those remaining being primarily the elderly and people with limited mobility. "All the young people left" explains Yulia Tuskova, an 88-year old, as she carries plastic sheeting home to cover her damaged windows, "only the old people remain". The situation is growing worse as intense fighting in the region continues and winter conditions grow harsher, with temperatures expected to drop below zero at the weekend. Another of those left in Chasiv Yar, 73-year-old Vladislav, makes the desperate situation facing those in the east clear: "a person has a limit, after which he can kill a neighbour, even kill his own mother, for survival." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES