Parked up on a winter-grey Donbas wheatfield, a Ukrainian military officer pointed out the distant skyline of the city of Avdiivka – or what was left of it.
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Teenagers, elderly people and even prisoners are plugging drastic holes in the Russian workforce created by people being recruited into the army or fleeing the country.
Vacations in the Soviet Union were hardly idylls spent with one’s dearest. Everything about them from whom you traveled with to what you ate was state determined.