In early 2001, Yakiv Rogalin took a Port Authority bus from Mt. Lebanon daily to study charity management at the University of Pittsburgh. Now, the 59-year-old Ukrainian doctor takes a shabby bus twice a week, passing through six checkpoints in eastern Ukraine, to get papers permitting the transport of milk and medication across the front lines of the conflict between government troops and Russian-backed rebels.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Doctor who studied in Pittsburgh aids people in embattled eastern Ukraine
An elderly women makes her way through the deserted roads in the frontline neighbourhood of Jabunki by the airport in Donetsk on April 19, 2015 in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
