Bored of war and dreaming of peace, pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine pass the time firing off weapons as months of conflict drag on with no resolution in sight.
A group from the “Sword Battalion” are outside Ilovaisk, east of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, testing a weapon just given to them by the self-proclaimed separatist Donetsk People’s Republic.
There is just one problem – their “new” anti-tank gun actually dates back to World War II.
“We don’t know where it came from. Maybe a museum,” quips Konstantin Konyushenko, the group’s scar-faced leader, eyeing the new gun and its two-metre barrel.
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Source: Herald LIVE
