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As the Key Battle Looms, a Report from Ukraine’s Front Lines

Crisis in Ukraine

We make our way through bucolic countryside and the mortar shells to the besieged city of Donetsk, which once had a million people, and is now a ghost town.

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DONETSK, Ukraine — There is always something unsettling about being in a car heading in a direction everyone else is fleeing, but at least this afternoon there was the heartening sight of luminous fields full of sunflowers to raise our spirits as we tried to find a way into the...

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