To visit Nikishino is to see the effects of almost total war. This could be the road to Berlin in 1945. It is, in fact, the road to Debaltseve, in eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
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An elderly woman cries as she stands in front of a damaged house in Nikishyne, southeast of Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast on March 11.