Russia's War Against Ukraine OP-ED

Nolan Peterson: Front lines in Ukraine divide families and friends

By Nolan Peterson.

Published March 3, 2017 at 3:43 pm

Residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk clear rubble from an apartment building that was destroyed as a result of night shelling between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists on June 24.

Photo by AFP

TARAMCHUK, Ukraine – The war is always there, even if the shooting stops for a while.

It is a quiet, overcast winter morning in the front-line village of Taramchuk in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers from the National Guard’s Aidar Battalion mill about outside the abandoned homes within which they have garrisoned, tending to their morning chores.