A group of angry people chatted in a tight circle under a poplar tree near the wrecked building that used to be the center of government in this besieged port city on the Azov Sea. Its broken, soot-blackened windows are a sad monument to last year’s violent clashes between patriots loyal to Kiev and those who wanted pro-Russian forces to take over the city. The Ukrainian patriots won, and ever since in this city of 500,000 people those sympathetic to the pro-Russian partisans of the Donbas Oblast are liable to arrest. But these old protesters don’t seem to care.
The Daily Beast: Fifth column on Ukraine’s front line
A serviceman watches with binoculars on the position of Ukrainian forces near airport of Donetsk during a break between pro-Russian separatist's shelling on Aug. 19, 2015.
