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Youth squad in Donetsk

Soviet-style youth squads are making a comeback in eastern Ukraine

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Pro-Russian teenagers in eastern Ukraine spend their weekends practicing for war and recruiting peers to their separatist cause.

An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows the air traffic control tower of the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport damaged by shelling during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine.

Oh, Donetsk airport, I knew you when

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