“Kyiv, Ukraine – It wasn’t a knock, it was loud banging – at about 7:30 on a recent Saturday morning. Taras opened the door of his two-bedroom apartment in Kreminna, a town in Ukraine’s southeastern Luhansk region that was taken over by Russia in late April, to see three gun-toting soldiers in camouflage. ‘Do you have a garage on the corner?’ the oldest of them, a redhead in his late 20s, asked Taras imperatively. Without waiting for his answer, the soldier continued: ‘Open it up.’ He was talking about a group of three dozen garages built in the early 1980s, an area which had become an informal club, where men could have a drink, crack a joke and play backgammon or chess. ...”
Destroyed vehicles are pictured in the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donba
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