Mariupol (Ukraine) (AFP) – Some Ukrainian troops play hours of football while others take dips in the sea as they try to adjust to a sudden drop in fighting following a fresh ceasefire deal.Kiev’s war commanders are ready to allow almost anything to save soldiers from the gravest danger facing them during the current tentative truce — booze.Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have spent the past 17 months fighting pro-Russian insurgents across the former Soviet republic’s separatist industrial east.Now, yet another in a failed series of ceasefires, agreed on September 1, appears to be mostly holding.And troops who have learned …read more
Source: Business Insider
