Sedove (Ukraine) (AFP) – With their sunburnt backs, flip-flops and baseball caps, the families lolling about the Ukrainian resort town of Sjedove on the Azov Sea could be mistaken for holidaymakers. But they are all refugees, fleeing the deadly combat in east Ukraine as the fighting has escalated in recent days and come closer and closer to large cities. The run-down hotels in the town, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of Donetsk, usually serve coal miners on holiday from the Donbass region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland. Now they are filled with some 1,200 displaced people escaping more than three months of clashes between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine’s army. One temporary resident in the small two- or three-story hostels by the beach is Yulia, who fled the town of Snizhne near the crash site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. “We decided to leave for our baby’s sake,” she said, as her one-year-old son Bogdan cried in her arms. “Tanks were regular traffic where we were.