STEPANIVKA, Ukraine - An explosion boomed across the sunflower and wheat fields, sending fiery tendrils in all directions as a black mushroom cloud rose above the windy steppe. A crew of pro-Russian rebels had just blown up more than a ton of unexploded artillery shells and rockets collected from fields, gardens, and cow paths around the village of Stepanivka in eastern Ukraine.
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View of a classroom in a damaged school in Donetsk on Oct. 1, 2014, after a shell exploded nearby.
