SNIZHNE, Ukraine — Outside Vladimir Moroz’s snug little brick home, winter and hardship grip war-stricken eastern Ukraine. Money is scarce, the store shelves are bare and an icy wind whips over the snowy steppe.
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A miner works at the Kalinovskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian city of Makeevka near Donetsk on December 23, 2014. Work has continued at the state-run coalmine even after it was taken over by the separatist authorities of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic although pay for the miners is sporadic. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV
