…The Ukraine conflict – which hasn’t gone away – it’s just been off the front pages lately. And with our short little attention spans we’ve apparently lost interest.
Nolan Peterson hasn’t.
Peterson recently spent six days visiting Ukrainian troops and finding that, despite optimistic talk of a ceasefire, the war is still quite real for those on the front lines ~
SHCHASTYA, Ukraine—The late winter weather in Ukraine alternates among frigid, cool, snow, and rain—teasing the arrival of spring.
The 2-year-old war, which has ravaged eastern Ukraine, killing more than 10,000 and displacing more than 1 million, is as fickle as the weather—teasing the possibility of peace without ever achieving it […]
Many villages along the front lines are battle-scarred; some have become ghost towns. The territory on the fringes of the front lines is a land in purgatory, where normal life is as frozen as the conflict itself…
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An Embedded Journalist on Ukraine"It's a real war going on in Europe in 2016 and as a journalist it feels like a secret … and that's scary."
Posted by The Daily Signal on Tuesday, March 15, 2016
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