Luck decides life and death in Ukraine’s war zone

 

 

 

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — When rockets scream across the skies of eastern Ukraine the people below are hostage to fortune.

A soldier racing through a frontline town in a drab pickup truck may take a direct hit only to be saved by a miracle.

An elderly woman slumbering in her apartment is tossed across her bedroom — spared from the havoc next door by a cracked partition wall, her alarm clock frozen at the moment of the strike.

A serviceman who has rotated off the frontline takes a moment to relax, only to come under fire at the exact moment he has let his guard down.

All have survived, for now at least, on the eastern front of the war between Russ…

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