Life near eastern Ukraine's front line: 'I don't want war'
Oleksandr Panov refuses to leave his damaged house in Avdiivka (Anadolu photo) AVDIIVKA, Ukraine -- Since 2014, under the shadow of war, an octogenarian ex-schoolteacher who lives in a roofless house near the line of contact in eastern Ukraine has clung with all his might to the house he once shared with his wife. Oleksandr Panov, 80, lives in Avdiivka, a city in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, once known as a "city of ghosts" as so many residents fled their homes due to shelling between pro-Russian separatist groups and Ukrainian government forces. The city, with a population of some ...
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