Yes, it is getting worse still in Eastern Ukraine.

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18. "that's not an anti-terrorist operation, it's a war"

said mayor Sergej Krawtschenko, according to the German magazine Stern. Yet EU countries still supply special equipment and weapons to Ukraine - contrary to their own rules prohibiting such exports to crisis regions.

http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/krise-in-der-ukraine-grossstadt-lugansk-total-isoliert-2128342.html

Local officials say troops are also tightening their grip on the rebel-held city of Luhansk - home to 420,000 people - which is currently without water and electricity. Luhansk's mayor said the city was facing a "humanitarian catastrophe."

http://www.dw.de/talks-continue-to-return-ukrainian-troops-who-entered-russia/a-17832011

NO WATER, NO ELECTRICITY

"I work in the city center. It's easier for me to be at work than to come home. You never know if your house will still be standing when you get back," the financial director of a small company who gave her name only as Antonina said in Petrovsky.

"I know people who have come back from work and found they have nowhere to live."

In another outlying district, Maryinka, roads and houses were pock-marked by shells and some buildings were burnt-out carcasses. The rebels control a checkpoint there, but an abandoned military truck with the Ukrainian flag by the side of the road bore witness to the fighting there.

Streets were deserted and shelling could be heard nearby. Buildings were without electricity or running water.

"Yesterday the light went off suddenly and there was an explosion. I hid in the hallway," said a woman who gave her name as Yevgeniya, standing outside her battered home.

"Then I heard a woman crying outside. Her son and his wife were killed by shelling. They were lying right there," she said, pointing to a pool of blood.

Many homes in Luhansk, which is close to the border with Russia, also have no electricity or water.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/03/us-urkaine-crisis-east-idUSKBN0G207E20140803