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Tetyana Naumenko and her friends, holed up in a frigid abandoned fort near Kyiv's city center, are ripping up wedding dresses. It's for a good cause. Once enough dresses are torn up, the women take the strips and lace them onto fishing nets stretched across wooden frames. They're making winter camouflage for Ukrainian troops harried by gunfire from pro-Russian rebels in the eastern front.

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