Caught in the Crossfire in Eastern Ukraine
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A piece of an exploded Grad rocket is photographed outside an apartment building in Vostochniy, district of Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine, on January 25. Indiscriminate rocket fire had slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. #
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A car burns on the street after a shelling by pro-Russian rebels of a residential sector of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on January 24. Ten people were killed in the shelling, the head of the Kiev-controlled Donetsk regional police said. #
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The body of a civilian killed when a mortar shell landed near a bus stop, lies on the ground in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on January 30. Artillery fire in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed at least 12 civilians, the city hall in the rebel stronghold said, as fighting intensified between pro-Russia separatists and government troops. #
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A child waits on a bus to leave the town of Debaltseve in Artemivsk, Ukraine, on February 3. Almost 2,000 residents have fled the town in the last few days alone, as battles surged nearby. #
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This photo, taken January 21, depicts the destroyed airport in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Battles for control over the airport on the northern edge of the main separatist stronghold of Donetsk intensified over the week with rebels taking control over the terminal, although fighting is continuing in nearby settlements. The airport, which was a major showcase of the Euro 2012 Championship hosted by Ukraine, has been reduced to a hulking wreck by months of intense fighting. #
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A pro-Russian separatist lies on the ground as he takes cover during Ukrainian army artillery fire on their position near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve on January 28. #
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitors investigate outside an apartment building damaged in a recent shelling in which scores of people were killed and injured in Mariupol, Ukraine, on January 27. #
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Pieces of broken glass and blood on the ground in clinic 27, damaged after shelling, in Donetsk on February 4. Heavy shelling in the rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon killed at least five people and damaged a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, local officials said. #
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A woman covers the body of a man who was killed during a shelling in a residential area of Donetsk's Tekstilshik district, on February 4. At least 12 people were killed in fighting between soldiers and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine, including four civilians who died when a hospital was hit in rebel stronghold Donetsk. #
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A man chops wood to light a fire outside of his home in the town Svitlodarsk, Ukraine, on January 30. Shelling of the town, which destroyed the local hospital, has damaged basic infrastructure, cutting off electricity, water and household gas supplies. #
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An administrative building destroyed in recent battles between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists in Semenivka, in the Donetsk region, on December 29, 2014. #
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A girl kisses her father, a conscript, after a ceremony marking enrollment for new conscripts in the Ukrainian army in Kiev on January 29. Ukraine's parliament voted January 15 to refresh its front-line forces and resume partial conscription after a top security official warned that Russian forces backing separatist rebels had sharply increased military activity in the east. #
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A Ukrainian serviceman of the Donbass volunteer battalion takes up a position at an abandoned house during clean-up operations in a village in the Lysychansk district of the Lugansk region, controlled by pro-Russian separatists on January 28. #
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A house burns after shelling destroyed several homes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on February 3. At least 16 civilians have been killed in fierce fighting across east Ukraine in the previous 24 hours, government and rebel officials said on February 3. Five civilians were killed around battleground town Debaltseve, six in and around rebel center Donetsk, and five in neighboring Lugansk region, pro-Kiev officials and rebels said. #
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The remains of a man lie near a bus stop that was damaged in shelling in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on January 20. At least three civilians were killed in shelling as fighting continued between government and rebel forces in the separatist-held city. #
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A man stands next to his car on February 1 after it was destroyed by shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk—which is controlled by pro-Russian rebels. #
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Local residents gather inside a bomb shelter in Debaltseve, in the Donetsk region, on January 30. In Debaltseve, seven civilians were killed on Friday by separatist shelling of their homes, regional police chief Vyacheslav Abroskin said in a Facebook post. #
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A pro-Russian fighter (left) guards an injured Ukrainian soldier held prisoner at the hospital in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on February 2. Russian conscripts are coming under growing pressure to sign up as professional soldiers and fear they might dispatched to fight alongside separatists in Ukraine, rights activists said. #
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A woman walks through a residential area hit by the Ukrainian Army Artillery in Voroshilovsky area, center of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 18. The separatist stronghold was shaken by intense outgoing and incoming artillery fire as a bitter battle raged for control over the city's airport. Streets in the city, once home to a million people before unrest erupted in spring, were completely deserted and the windows of apartments in the center rattled from incessant rocket and mortar fire. #
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