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Truce Bypasses Donetsk Airport, Symbol of Conflict in E. Ukraine


While fighting in much of eastern Ukraine has been calmed by a month-old truce, it rages unabated at the airport near Donetsk, turning a shiny symbol of the country’s Western integration into a shattered mirror of its future prospects.

The new terminal European soccer fans used in 2012 to reach some of the matches hosted by Ukraine is now a pitted hulk, a strategic target for the pro-Western Kyiv government and the rebels pulling the ex-Soviet republic back into Moscow’s orbit.

The airport sits about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the city center. For the Ukrainian military, which wrested it from the …read more

Source: Voice of America

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