The teenage girls who ran for their lives from a café as Russian missiles landed nearby on Tuesday would have been small children when the sounds of war first came to their home.
In the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin’s troops first arrived a decade ago in unmarked uniforms and under the thin disguise of a local insurrection.
Spurred on by the reverberating impacts, Tuesday’s salvo was over for the girls before they could even reach a bomb shelter, but this time they escaped unscathed — they even giggled as they ran.
The suspected Russian soldiers who launched the Buk anti-aircraft missile and their more senior commanders will never be held to account
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They were too young to remember July 17, 2014, when a Boeing 777 came crashing out of the air in flames, brought down by one of the first Russian missiles to