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Forsaken: Little love for Kyiv in front line Donbas city wracked by warfare and poverty (PHOTOS)

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A boy stands in the ruins of the City Hall in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast on July 5. The building was gutted by a fire during fierce fighting in July 2014, when Ukrainian forces liberated the town from the Russian-backed separatist fighters.

TORETSK, Ukraine – On the eve of President Petro Poroshenko’s July 5 visit to Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast to mark the two years since the city’s liberation from Russian-backed separatists, an angry crowd confronted Ukrainian troops in the smaller city of Toretsk, located some 55 kilometers south.

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