LUHANSK, Ukraine –- Lyuba Bolgarova has come to look for her father in a dusty field lined with trees that the autumn cold has given a rust-colored kiss.
Jutting from mounds of dirt are simple, wooden crosses — more than a hundred of them by a recent count — pale blond testaments to the toll of the ongoing conflict between Moscow-backed rebels and the government in Kiev.
In August, when battles between Ukrainian government forces and separatist fighters raged in and around the city, Lyuba’s father Alexander awoke in the middle of the night in a panic, thinking a shell had taken out the family home. The house was unscathed but Bolgarov, still delirious, took to his bed and refused to leave Read more…
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