donetsk

The air was dark and malignant when Agent Craig and his team arrived in Donetsk on the train.

Tank’s crew ran out of Donetsk, a city of nearly a million people in southeast Ukraine.

The American cops took the slower, cheaper train from Kyiv to Donetsk.

That a maximally aggressive Putin is eyeing Donetsk and Luhansk for occupation the same way he did Crimea.

Last summer, Russia and Ukraine agreed to better enforce a shaky ceasefire over the fighting that has gripped eastern Ukraine—specifically the separatist enclaves in parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions—since 2014.

Bershin, who worked with the Ukrainian police before rebels took control of Donetsk, says officers have to be extra vigilant.

Her house in Donetsk, she says, has been taken over by rebels and her family is now all but homeless.

In front of its offices in Donetsk, there is an armored military vehicle.

In Donetsk, there is at least the appearance of some sort of formalized legal process.

Artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day.