MARIUPOL, Ukraine - The outdoor dance floor of the Old Lighthouse restaurant in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine was half-packed with parents dancing with their kids and a few bored twenty-somethings smoking hookahs. Pumping out Ukrainian turbo folk and Russian pop standards, the thumping speakers drowned out the sound of artillery, thundering away just a few kilometres down the coast.
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Volunteers prepare bags of potatoes at a Red Cross center before distributing them to citizens in the key southeastern port city of Mariupol, on Sept. 8, 2014.
