A checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian rebel-stronghold, Donetsk.<br/> <br />Families who had had fled the city are now starting to come back...hoping for, even anticipating, a possible ceasefire after five months of war.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) DONETSK RESIDENTS, TATIANA VIKTOROVNA AND HER HUSBAND VALERY, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We are tired of wandering about. We want to go home. We want to live home. It is getting colder and we have no clothes."<br/> <br />Pro-Russian separatists want to break away and join neighboring Russia, which Ukraine and the West believes is funding the rebels.<br/> <br />Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a roadmap to end the violence and peace talks are scheduled for Friday in Minsk.<br/> <br />But diplomatic exchanges this week between Moscow and Ukraine's central government in Kiev had no immediate impact on the ground, with government forces shelling the outskirts of Donetsk overnight.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SELF-PROCLAIMED DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC MILITIA OFFICER,
