A year into the war, some residents of eastern Ukrainian towns still confound officials and the police with their support for Russia despite the constant bombardment from Russian forces.
The blogger killed in a bombing in St. Petersburg was one of the influential ultranationalists pushing for harsher pursuit of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Huddled in basements just over a mile away from the front lines of Avdiivka, over 1,800 residents are refusing to be rescued from one of the most active battlegrounds in eastern Ukraine.