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BALAKLAVA, Ukraine — Oleg and Irina Shevtsov, a proudly patriotic Russian couple, took their three young children on an outing Sunday morning to admire a long column of Russian troops and armor that, a day earlier, had secured their Crimean town’s dusty main street. By the time the family got there, however, the Russians had all vanished, disappearing as quickly and mysteriously as they had appeared.

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