The sound of battle has long gone. But the ghosts remain in Ukraine's Independence Square, where more than two years ago police and protesters clashed for weeks amid acrid black fumes billowing from burning tires. In Ukraine's Maidan where sniper rounds once cracked, there are now foreign tourists. Where 53 people were slain either with clean shots by expert marksmen or gunned down at closer range by less skillful assassins, there are now snaking lines of school kids visiting from other Ukrainian cities.
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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko inspected line of strongholds at forefront and communicated with servicemen of the 128th separate brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on June 24, 2016.
