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A Dispatch From Bakhmut, Ukraine - Pacific Standard

A Dispatch From Bakhmut, Ukraine

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Author:: Anastasia Vlasova
Publish date:: Mar 9, 2017
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A woman waits in a bus after an emergency worker-led evacuation from the embattled town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine.

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