A Ukrainian couple inspects and boards up the windows of their apartment after it was damaged during shelling in the town of Kurakhove, near the front line in the Pokrovsk district of the eastern Donetsk region. Russia said Friday its forces had captured the frontline villages of Ostrivske, which lies on the eastern banks of the Kurakhove reservoir in an area where Russia is concentrating its offensive activity, according to the Ukrainian military. The Kremlin has been pushing ahead in east Ukraine for months, pressing its advantage against outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian soldiers. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES