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Feodosia, Ukraine: Their base has been overrun and their region annexed by Russia but the Ukrainian soldiers at Feodosia in Crimea are not giving up yet.

The Ukrainian flag and its marine standard fly alongside the Russian tricolour put up by the forces who seized the base of the 1st Separate Marine Battalion, Ukraine’s top military unit, earlier this month, as Russia took over the Black Sea peninsula.

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