A biography of Winston Churchill sits on Stephan Machsma's desk. Machsma is the mayor of Sartana, Ukraine, and he is leading the town’s approximately 10,000 residents through their own darkest hour.
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A Ukrainian serviceman examine a destroyed house after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian seperatists in the town of Zolote, some 60 km west of Lugansk, on Aug. 16, 2015.
