At French Roast, a bistro on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Ivan Rodichenko remembers when a machine gun took his comrade’s head clean off — and what happened next. “The Russians took his cellphone out of his pocket and rifled through his contacts. They found the numbers for his parents and his girlfriend and called them to say Oleh was dead. This was August 28, in the village of Nikishino, near Debaltseve.”
Debaltseve, a city of some 25,000 people halfway between the separatist centers of Donetsk and Luhansk, happens to be the locus of some of the fiercest fighting occurring …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
