Outside Ukrainian city, fighting continues ahead of truce's start

September 06, 2014 02:54

The Ukrainian captain sat on a fallen tree amid drifting smoke, clutching his bare head, as the wreckage of an artillery convoy destroyed by enemy fire smoldered nearby.

"Don't go out there, don't look at the shame of Ukraine's army," he said with a moan, narrow lines of blood streaking slowly out of his ears and nose. "These cannons were meant to give hell to Russians. They didn't fire a shot. Such a shame!"

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