On Location video: Rootin’ for Putin on Ukraine’s eastern edge

GlobalPost

DONETSK — Saturday afternoon in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine and a now familiar scene in this city near the Russian border. Russian flags, in a Russian-speaking city. Many here see the new government in Kyiv not as freedom fighters, but as coupmongers.

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