The bunker is dark, damp and cramped. At its entrance stands a former football player from Donetsk who goes by the name of Ostrich and is shouting frenzied instructions into a radio as mortar rounds from the Ukrainian side pound the rebel position. One lands very close.
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Servicemen walk on May 28, 2015 around Ukrainian positions on the frontline facing pro-Russian separatists near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.