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Al Jazeera
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Liz Cookman

Mariupol: War fears in Ukraine’s vulnerable frontier city

A broken statute in the abondaned village outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]

Mariupol, Ukraine – Seven years ago, in January 2015, shells began hitting Liudmyla Skoroboatyh’s residential block on the outskirts of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine’s largest front-line city.

She saw her neighbour at a window drinking coffee. The windows soon came in, and the flying glass damaged her body so badly that an ambulance refused to take her to hospital, saying her case was hopeless.

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