IT’S almost exactly seven years ago now since I first arrived in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Back then just off Pushkin Boulevard in the heart of the city, pro-Russian separatists occupying the city hall had already hoisted Soviet-era banners and every day the barricades grew higher and more heavily manned. For weeks during that April of 2014, the separatists had been storming and occupying government buildings and seizing weapons. Tense as things were back then, this was only the beginning. Few at that time could have foreseen what was to follow, as the city became the hub of what would be known as the Donetsk People s Republic (DPR), sustained by Russian military and materiel support. This was a story in itself that was to bring myself and other correspondents back time and again.
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