Ukrainian Offensive Unnerves Residents of Eastern City

For residents of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, a government offensive against pro-Russian separatists stirred concerns that their safety may be at risk and prompted emergency preparations.

Andrei Khabarov, 40, a farm-equipment vendor, said he was keeping his daughter home from school this week and parking his car on the street in case his family needed to escape quickly. He and several other people alleged that Ukrainian jets buzzed the area as an operation to dislodge the separatists ensued, though their claims couldn’t be independently verified.