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Ukraine convent shows scars from conflict’s fiercest battle


Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Nikolai Borodulya picks his way past tripwires and unexploded mines when he visits his relatives’ graves in the cemetery of the ravaged Svyato-Iversky convent near the frontline of east Ukraine’s war.”There’s a shell sticking out next to their grave,” the church elder, who lives nearby, told AFP.The small white-painted convent is a no-go area, its gravestones broken, its walls pockmarked with craters after months of fierce fighting for the neighbouring Donetsk airport. Its nuns and priests were forced to leave in the summer of 2014, but services continued for several months after hostilities broke out in …read more

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