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Caught in the middle: War in Ukraine creates no man’s lands


The gunshot, fired in error by a jumpy soldier, sent government border guard troops on patrol this week scrambling to brace against the ambush they expect every time they venture into Katerynivka.

The men said that four of their fellow soldiers were killed in a recent clash with separatist rebels.

“Katerynivka is nominally the territory of Ukraine, but for the time being it is just a buffer zone where there could be bandits and separatist militants,” said Pavlo Petrovich, known to fellow soldiers by the code-name Papa, a border guard service volunteer from the western region of Chernivtsi.

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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