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Merciless heat, long lines at Novotroitske checkpoint (PHOTOS)

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A child sits in a car that stands in a line at the crossing point in Novotroitske village near Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast on Sept. 6.
Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

NOVOTROITSKE, Ukraine – The border guards rushed to an old blue car, a Soviet-made Lada. A minute earlier one of them had reported that he had found a hidden compartment in the vehicle.

The contents of the compartment in the car’s door turned out to be heart-wrenchingly mundane, however.

Keep reading the Kyiv Post story from Novotroitske here.