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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Inside one of the room. Typical bed in the bunker; made of empty cardboard boxes.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Only curtains separate the rooms in between them. There is no real doors inside the bunker.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Two man live in this tiny room but they were not there when we visited.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Kids watching cartoons in a room inside the bunker.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Behind the entrance of the bunker, the coal mine who actually own the bunkers and allowed the family to squatted it for humanitarian reasons.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Inside the bunker, main entrance door. A flag of the separatist is hanging on the upright side of the door. A dog on the lower left side intrigued by the newcomers.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Tomas Vlach (on the right) emergency coordinator for the NGO "People in Need" welcome by some members of families living in the bunker.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Behind the entrance of the bunker, the coal mine who actually own the bunkers and allowed the family to squatted it for humanitarian reasons.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Natasha, 11 years old. Severely traumatize by the conflict. She scream every time she hear unfamiliar noise.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Pasha 5 years old with his guinea pig, Masha.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Marina preparing the dinner, pasta  for her four kids, in a small room reserve for cooking. Like most of the family we saw, no husband is present.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine -  One of the several kids living in the bunker intrigued by my presence.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Anton, 30 years old. No work and can't join the separatist army as he wish because of its legs got injured after a severe car accident several years ago. So he spend the days either inside the bunker or visiting is house in Petrovsky and taking care of his little garden.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - There is several rooms with different size in the bunker. Here a tiny one to accommodate this man who refuse to give me it's name and to be identified.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Typical room for a family in the bunker. Here 7 people sleep and live in this room. The grandmother on the left, the mother and her five kids. The father has gone, no clear explanation from the mother.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Kidd's bicycle belonging to the several families could live in the bunker (up to 70 people at a time).
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Louba, 52 years old, figure of a leader for the other woman in the bunker.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Czech photographer Iva Zimova trying to comfort Babushka as she often cry, lost hope for a better life sometimes. This was the second day we visited the bunkers.
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  • 15 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donetsk Oblast/ Ukraine - Paint on a house door helping people to locate the bunkers. in English: Bomb shelter, 50 meters on the left.
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  • Shadow of war...
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  • When he saw my camera, he scream and run into his mother's arms. He take my camera lens for a gun nozzle.
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  • Soldiers also worried for our and their security. Everybody must stay inside until commander give us the Ok.
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  • Inside one of the bunker of Ukrainian army position.
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  • Artifacts install by the soldiers outside the shelter of the camp position.
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  • Just anotther young soldier of the Ukrainian army.
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  • Nadia, 30 years old, just another young soldier.
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  • Agna, 10 years old and her little brother, Voda, 4 years old.
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  • After hearing heavy shelling from short distance, this soldier decide to go see what's going on. But he came back short after as the ennemy was not close as he worried at first.
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  • One of the soldier heard noise comming from the separatist position, jump on his Kalachnikov and take position in case of...
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  • Soldiers ask us to stay inside the position shelter because separatists were shelling closer to our position.
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  • Tank operator going back to the front line.
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  • Wreck car, just another victim of the conflict.
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  • Giving a lift to some soldiers so they can reach their check point position.
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  • no comments...
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  • Soldier taking us to the frontline, asking us to follow his path to avoid stepping on mines.
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  • Anthony, 23 years old, soldier with Pravyi Sektor in the commander "Batman" unit.
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  • Picking-up food from Dnipropetrovsk citizen.
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  • On the road to Pisky and Advinka, to the front line position to bring foods, cigarets, battery, etc to the Ukrainian soldiers. On the right, Volodymyr Fomenko, the pro-Russian administration offer $10 000 for his head.
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  • Checkpoint in between Pisky and Advinka. The pro-Russian separatists blow-up this train bridge several months ago.
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  • Soldiers getting ready to counter attack the separatists who were firing mortars at us this morning.
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  • A simple cross in between Ukrainian army  and the separatists position to remember that both have to count their dead.
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  • These two towers are often use by snipers to spot Ukrainian soldier coming out of their bunkers at check points.
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  • A lucky charm gave to him by his fiancée waiting for his safe return, in Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • Maxim, 27 years old, soldier of the unit "Orchestra" of the Ukrainian army.
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  • Unexploded mortar.
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  • Food storage at one of the main checkpoint in Pisky. All this food is supply by volunteers like the 3 man I accompanied on the 3 of April 2015. Without these braves man and woman, the soldiers would greatly suffer from starving.
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  • Valeriy Garagutz posing with some Ukrainian soldiers after they received food and toilets articles from the volunteers.
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  • Cars after the shelling.
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  • Commander "Batman" taking us to his soldiers position.
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  • 12 of April 2015 / Petrovski/ Donestk Oblast/ Ukraine - Tomas Vlach, emergency coordinator of the NGO "People in Need" in discussion with Babushka, grandmother of Natacha (on the right), trying to have a better understanding of her family needs.
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  • Ukrainian tank after stepping on a mine.
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  • Soldiers ask us to stay inside the position shelter because separatists were shelling closer to our position.
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  • In Pisky, destruction is almost total.
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  • Commander "Batman" with one of his soldier.
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  • A black cat who does not seem to be trouble by the conflict.
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  • Soldier having a rest inside one of the front line position campement.
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  • Vladimir, 19 years old, soldier of unit "Orchestra" of the Ukrainian army.
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  • Ukrainian army tank coming back from the frontline because the separatists prepared an anti-tank operation according to the spied communications.
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  • Commander "Batman" of the Pravyi Sektor, declared dead 2 months ago but obviously, he is still alive.
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  • Inside a back position of the Ukrainian army where they control the different troops mobility.
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  • Vasilisa Trofymovych, 23 years old. She is press-officer of Dnipro1 regiment of the Ukrainian army.
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  • Pravyi Sektor on the front line. I was not allowed to shoot it closer.
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  • Two members of the "Pravyi Sektor" (Right Sector).
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  • Ukrainian army tank who got blow-up during the fight.
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  • On the road with volunteers bringing food to Ukrainian soldiers on the front line of Pisky.
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  • Valeriy Garagutz - journalist and co-founder of "Litsa" newspaper in Dnipropetrovsk. The pro-Russian administration offer $10 000 US dollars for his head. He is showing me what blow-up the military pickup, a shrapnel from a mortar.
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