(FILES) This file photo taken on June 21, 2015 shows residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine queueing in their cars at a Ukrainian checkpoint on the road from Gorlivka to Artemivsk to leave the territory controlled by pro-Russia separatists and enter Ukrainian territory. International monitors warned on December 2, 2016 that around 600,000 impoverished people could be left without water or heat in war-scarred eastern Ukraine this winter. The words of caution came with few signs of an end to the 31-month-long conflict between Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists that has killed nearly 10,000 people in the EU's backyard. / AFP PHOTO / Andrey BORODULIN