Ukrainian American pastor Alex Zaytsev has been driving dozens of his parishioners out of Avdiivka, a city on the front line with Russian-backed separatists. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, has told civilians there to evacuate “while this possibility still exists.” Zaytsev told The World’s Marco Werman about rising tensions in the region.
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