The baby-faced teenager in baggy shorts races his skateboard past the bombed burger joint and hits Peace Square just as air raid sirens rolled over the Ukrainian front. He crashes a few times doing flips on the vast and entirely deserted expanse at the heart of Ukraine's administrative centre for the eastern war zone.

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