NOVOAZOVSK - Their tanks bearing the flag of their would-be state, Russian-backed separatists held control Friday, Aug. 29 over this coastal town on the new front in the Ukraine conflict and announced their intention to keep pushing west toward a major port city.
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A member of Ukrainian volunteer battalion Dnipro holds his weapon though a hole in a truck covered in steel plates near the small southern Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk, Donetsk region, on Aug. 27, 2014.
