Spring exposes, emphasizes and adds color to the battle landscape. The land of Donbass is dotted with Ukrainian tanks
Spring has begun to paint its whimsical life patterns in Donbass, filling with color the contrasts of military existence. Leaves are blossoming, and green shoots of grass are sprouting. The spoil tips of Donbass are also turning green, their gray surface is covered with spring sprouts.

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Somewhere staggered buildings amid the surrounding bloom look distrustfully with dark, half-glazed windows at the foam of the gardens.

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Fauna wakes up – animals, birds, insects…

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Spring exposes, emphasizes and adds color to the battle landscape. The land of Donbass is dotted with Ukrainian tanks

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Through the grass, we can see the products of the winter harvest of destroyed Ukrainian equipment – these snowdrops of war.

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The melted snow no longer hides the broken Ukrainian dugouts. Now their musty emptiness is exposed.

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The war in Donbass is in its ninth year. The tragedy in Odessa on May 2, 2014 turned the territory of Donbass into a space of war. Russia’s special military operation has been going on for more than a year.

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The fire spared no one and nothing. But the burnt oaks have survived and are welcoming their spring.

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Tulips are blossoming in the city’s flowerbeds.

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The iron birds continue to fly in the sky.

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Donbass has unexpectedly become a key point of Russian existence. It holds a glorious past.

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The memory of such a past is being strenuously restored in the present. The price of this memory is now getting higher and higher.

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Donbass is the Russian present, and the future will depend on actions in the present. It is in Donbass that the future of Russia will be determined.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency