ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine – Her eyes red with tears, military doctor Alla Neshchadym leans over the map that shows Ukrainian positions in the area around Debaltseve, the site of the fiercest fighting in the east.

“Only

two cars managed to get out of the encirclement yesterday. The guys

say it was just a miracle,” she tells the Kyiv Post as she sits in

the office of medical department of National Guard in Artemivsk on

Feb. 16. “None came out today.”