UKRAINE, Mariupol May 26, 2015.
Natalia Vynokurova, a former pianist who used to live in Russia, is jobless and survives selling dishes in the street that she prepares.
Located on the Azov Sea, some 100 kilometers from the rebel-held provincial capital Donetsk, Mariupol is seen as a key element of a potential land corridor from Russia to the Crimean peninsula.