A city hospital in Eastern Ukraine.
It looks like any hospital. People wait. Employees chat in a hallway. What's different is: no one is being paid; including doctors.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) DONETSK DOCTOR, ANZHELA, SAYING:
"I don't understand why our government - the government of Ukraine, where we studied, lived, became professionals, that we worked for - why it acted in such a way with us. Our Ukraine. It's very insulting. It's very painful."
On Monday, Kiev halted payments to municipal workers and pensioners in rebel-held regions of the country's east.
Those payments will be held until the region comes under government control again.
Meanwhile, classes go on. But for teachers it is a new life lesson.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) DONETSK CHEMISTRY TEACHER, ANASTASIYA SOSHNIKOVA, SAYING:
"It has been five months since we have been paid."
Kiev and the West accuse Russia of destabilizing Ukraine by providing the rebels with money, arms and
