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Shelling and mortar fire are an all-day event near the Ukrainian front line. But the residents won't leave 'our motherland'
CNN
Slovyanskaya Street is being taken apart by war. Not always in the hot drama of shellfire from nearby rebels, but in cold deconstruction. The community is being sold for scrap.
This close to the front, where the detonation of shells and outgoing mortars have now become an all-day event, most homes bear shrapnel scars.
But the deeper effects of this war are visible in the ruins of homes sold not for the plots of dangerous land that they sit on, but for the bricks and tiles that once constituted a home.
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