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ARTEMIVSK-DEBLATSEVE, Ukraine –- Dmitry and Andriy, a paratrooper and a volunteer medic, pick me up in a truck in central Artemivsk, a city once controlled by Russian-backed separatists 50 miles north of their stronghold in Donetsk. The city is now back in the hands of Ukrainian forces and has been used as a staging ground for the military’s “anti-terrorist operations.”
Squeezed between radios, bulletproof vests, ballistic helmets, camouflaged backpacks, night-vision goggles and cartons of cigarettes stacked from floor to ceiling, we make our way to a checkpoint on the edge of town, where we are to meet Tatyana Rychkova, a 35-year-old former baker turned volunteer who for the past several months has run supplies to Ukrainian soldiers fighting pitched battles on the front lines of Kiev’s war against the separatists Read more...
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