Avdiivka looks like many other small towns in , with shoppers stomping along icy streets in sub-zero temperatures, the bakery serving fresh cherry pastries, and a scruffy market with stalls selling cheese, pickled cucumber and home-made jams.Yet after walking a few minutes to the old part of town, the scars of conflict and cruel impact of the Kremlin's meddling in Ukraine can be seen – and often heard – with the starkest clarity.Many homes are destroyed, lying in collapsed heaps draped with thick snow, while others have gaping gaps in roofs from shells and boarded-up windows with the glass blown out. Blocks of flats sit empty. Road signs are riddled with bullet holes.
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