MALA ROGAN (UKRAINE) - Galyna Kios had been surviving with family and neighbours in her gloomy basement, cooking on a makeshift wood-fired stove, when the Russians came.
Towed away gleefully as if it were parked illegally, the Soviet-era armored personnel carrier doesn't look so intimidating as it is paraded before the delighted Ukrainians gathered to celebrate its seizure. Theoretically, the 1970s MT-LB belongs to the Russian forces, but they abandoned it in Ukraine's northeast, around 30 kilometers from the warring neighbors' shared…
Towed away gleefully as if it were parked illegally, the Soviet-era armoured personnel carrier doesn't look so intimidating as it is paraded before the delighted Ukrainians gathered to celebrate its…