Pushed against the wall by Russia's naked aggression, a wounded nation now wants to seal itself off completely from its jingoistic neighbor. Behind the electoral gambit played out at the polls on Sunday, meant to draw a philosophical and political line against the neo-imperialism of Russian President Vladimir Putin, there's also a construction project.
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An Ukrainian serviceman from the Donbass volunteer battalion walks in front of the state emblem on a wall on Aug. 4, 2014 as he together with others prepares for redeployment from Popasna, Lugansk region, freed by Ukrainian forces from the pro-Russian militants, to Donetsk.