VOA's London Correspondent Luis Ramirez visited Ukraine recently where he reported on the effects of the war and how citizens are coping. These are his photos.
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Azime Umerova (L) and Rustem Umerov were children when Stalin's security forces deported them from Crimea in 1944. To them, Mocow's annexation of the peninsula has been another chapter in a long history of Russian persecution of the Tatar people. (L. Ram
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Scars of the early days of the war in 2014 remain fresh, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 6, 2016. (L. Ramirez/VOA)
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The glass appears freshly shattered, but is from the shelling of two years ago, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 6, 2016. (L. Ramirez/VOA)
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Two years later, much of the damage of the Ukraine conflict's early battles remains untouched, March 6, 2016. (L. Ramirez/VOA)