| On August 10, one of the three friends, Vadim, was shot in the face by a sniper in the Donetsk region. |
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| Artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day. |
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| Official Donetsk Republic business was log-jammed because the high command had only one stamp for documents and identity papers. |
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| But for most people in Donetsk there is nowhere to go in the evening with most restaurants and bars closed. |
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| In Donetsk, the ex-president reportedly tried to escape in a private plane, but border guards prevented him from taking off. |
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| I leave the city center and drive a few kilometers outside Donetsk where I am flagged down at a police roadblock. |
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| She described the way she and Igor watched the Donetsk flag go up and down the flagpole in front of their window. |
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| In Donetsk it is presumed to have been off-loaded from the flatbed and started to move in a convoy on its own. |
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| It is true that the quintessential Eastern, Russified region of Donetsk has voted overwhelmingly for its ex-governor as well as ex-petty criminal Yanukovych. |
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| Their handiwork was on display Sunday, it appeared, in the small mining town of Krasnoarmeysk, 70 kilometers from Donetsk. |
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| Some say they are Ultras, hardcore fans of local football team Shakhtar Donetsk. |
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| The attacks hit Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Donetsk last weekend, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka this weekend. |
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| Last April, Kishinets invited every Donetsk lover of a healthy lifestyle, as he put it, to do tai Bo exercises in Lenin Square. |
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| One man in Donetsk said he visits his parents in Mariupol almost every weekend. |
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| Katya Milevski, 18, lives in Donetsk and was taking the trip to Mariupol to give her mother a small dog she carried. |
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| Yesterday, separatists in Donetsk took three truckloads of equipment from the Donetsk military academy. |
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| Were Donetsk separatists now going to give up their weapons and vacate the occupied buildings? |
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| After a month of almost nightly shelling, about 600,000 people are believed to remain in Donetsk. |
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| The latest press report by the City Hall of Donetsk said that an air strike hit the Kirovsky district on Tuesday night. |
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| Meanwhile, as if to keep the paperwork straight, the separatist government in Donetsk has formally introduced the death penalty. |
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| In Donetsk, there is at least the appearance of some sort of formalized legal process. |
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| To give a more vivid picture of the Donetsk population as he understood it, Verin drew a circle and divided it in two halves. |
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| But the calmness in rebel-held Donetsk on Sunday night suggested no big push is planned in the next few hours, at least. |
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| He blames Ukrainian officials for violating the ceasefire agreement and shelling the outskirts of Donetsk city. |
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| The position the Donetsk photograph published in Paris Match was taken is just before the red arrow in the centre of the map. |
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| And Chechen fighters from the self-styled Vostok battalion arrived in central Donetsk today for a rally. |
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| Leaving Donetsk, the bus is stopped at a checkpoint just inside the city line. |
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| The people of Donetsk are clinging to normality, trying to enjoy the spring, but their anger, disillusionment and fear runs deep. |
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| Andrey Donskoy is a musician and commando from Krasnoarmeysk, a town in the Donetsk region. |
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| On Tuesday, the group witnessed a convoy of 43 unmarked green military trucks with tarpaulin covers moving towards Donetsk. |
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| Down the highway, large letters shaped out of concrete or metal letters spelled out Donetsk in Cyrillic letters. |
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| On Nov. 5, shells killed two children and wounded several people on a school playng field in Donetsk. |
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| Now they are in Donetsk region, many paid by Yanukovych, who is still dreaming to destabilize life in Ukraine. |
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| Gone are the wild-eyed revolutionaries in Donetsk and Luhansk, replaced by steely-eyed bureaucrats and seasoned combat veterans. |
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| The Yanukoyches are from the donbass region and both Donetsk and Luhansk are Party of Regions strongholds. |
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| Bershin, who worked with the Ukrainian police before rebels took control of Donetsk, says officers have to be extra vigilant. |
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| Her house in Donetsk, she says, has been taken over by rebels and her family is now all but homeless. |
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| The first successful test was conducted on 24 April 1934 in Lysychansk, Donetsk Basin by the Donetsk Institute of Coal Chemistry. |
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| New shelling rocked the pro-Russian rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday despite a fragile ceasefire. |
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| Violent clashes continue between pro-Russian groups and Ukrainian forces in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. |
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| The trucks were inspected by customs and border officers at the checkpoints of Donetsk and Matveyev Kurgan. |
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| In front of its offices in Donetsk, there is an armored military vehicle. |
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| The hospital in Gorlovka, a city of 275,000 people 60 km northeast of Donetsk, has more equipment for high-risk obstetrics. |
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| A mortar shell hit a bus in the Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk yesterday, killing at least 13 people, the city's leader said. |
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| Eastern Ukrainian cities Donetsk, Kharkov and Luhansk, have been swept by pro-federalization rallies since March. |
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| Igor Girkin, defence minister of the separatist republic, said in an interview with the Russian television channel Life News that he had arrived in Donetsk from Slovyansk. |
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| The fact is there is not a single representative of the interior ministry, the interior forces or defence ministry in the territories of Donetsk or Slavyansk. |
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| The Donetsk airport, completed for Euro 2012, was destroyed by the end of 2014 because of the ongoing war between the government and the separatist movement. |
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| According to media reports, armed groups have regrouped in Donetsk and Lugansk, from which more and more residents have fled and others are trapped in zones of heavy fighting. |
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| On July 18, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics announced their plans to unilaterally withdraw heavy weaponry from the contact line. |
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| The Luhansk and Donetsk regions proclaimed the establishment of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics after local referendums in May last year. |
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| Balkhovitin, Zuivskyi regional landscape park, Donetsk Oblast. |
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| Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant PJSC, Invicta Merchant Bar Ltd. |
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| Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros had a song called Shakhtar Donetsk on the album Global A Go-Go, while U2 had a hit with Werder Streets Have No Name. |
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