When thousands of Ukrainian citizens and most journalists fled to safety, Stanislav Aseev, an aspiring young journalist decided to stay put in the Donbas. Surrounded by frequent shelling, rupturing grenades, flying rockets, worn by the psychological stress of death, destruction, and high unemployment, and bombarded by propaganda that shattered friendships and families, he put his life on the line to tell this story.
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Vera Zimmerman: Why the Donbas is so vulnerable to Russian propaganda
Activists hold symbolic ears as posters near the Dutch embassy in Kyiv on Feb. 5, 2016.
