Evacuated Ukrainians forced to return to homes near front line

Family and friends of 35-year-old Anna Protsenko, who was killed in a Russian rocket attack, walk to a cemetery for her burial on the outskirts of Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine (AP)

Tens of thousands of people who were evacuated from Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region are returning to homes close to the front line because they cannot afford to live in safer places.

One woman was killed by a missile outside her home in Pokrovsk just two days after returning.