A trip to the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine reveals militants sorrowful with the ceasefire and increasingly out-of-step with Moscow Portraits of Putin and Stalin adorn the room where the rebel commander,Yuri “Rostov” Shevchenko, holds court.
In this former KGB complex in the industrial town of Alchevsk in the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic, and members of Shevchenko’s militant Ghost Brigade are growing restless as a shaky ceasefire holds in eastern Ukraine.
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Source: theguardian.com