DONETSK, Ukraine - Deep in the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on Ukraine's eastern fringe, crumbling statues of Lenin were guarding a century-old coal mine, testifying to a former master who had begun encroaching again.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Defense One: How to make a country vanish. A journey inside eastern Ukraine
A man examines a shell hole in a building after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on July 18, 2015.
