SLAVYANSK, UKRAINE - JULY 11: Vladimir (L) and Jacob ® stand inside their destroyed house in the village of Nicolaivka, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared independence from Kiev and proclaimed their own people’s republics after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014. More than 2,000 civilians and combatants have been killed since mid-April, when Ukraine’s government sent troops to put down the rebel uprising.
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