(FILES) This file photo taken on August 16, 2015 shows a Ukrainian woman standing by her destroyed house after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian seperatists in the town of Zolote, some 60 km west of Lugansk. 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 / Oleksandr RATUSHNIAK