On a cold morning in February, a couple of hours' drive out of rebel-held Donetsk, the undercover journalist's phone buzzed with an 'Unknown' number. Was this to conceal the caller's identity, or location? Whatever the reason, it felt ominous.
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Pro-Russian separatist soldiers stand next to battle tanks parked in a warehouse away from the frontline, after being withdrawn from their positions near the town of Novoazovsk in the Donetsk Oblast on Oct. 21.