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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Kostyantynivka

‘It has been like hell’: life under fire in Donbas as war enters sixth month

A man leaving his damaged house in Kramatorsk on Thursday.
A man leaving his damaged house in Kramatorsk on Thursday. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

The Russian war against Ukraine has entered its sixth month, and in the eastern Donbas region – scene to some of the heaviest fighting – the missiles are still falling.

On Sunday morning it was school number six in the city of Kostiantynivka, 30km from the frontline. Two rockets made huge craters flush against a three-storey building that was gutted by the blast.

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