Scope of Ukraine's Refugee Crisis Remains Unclear

Lyudmila Denisenko endured weeks of deadly shootouts between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian insurgents in her home city of Slovyansk, the epicenter of the separatist conflict ravaging eastern Ukraine. But when a children's hospital was shelled two weeks ago, her patience finally snapped. She and her family fled for the relative safety of Izyum, a small town 50 kilometers northwest of Slovyansk. "We came here with nothing," she recently told RFE/RL...

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