From behind her black ski mask, Maria’s bright blue eyes light up when she’s asked if she is ready to go to the front lines of Ukraine’s battle against an increasingly violent insurgency in the eastern part of the country.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Al Jazeera: The Donbass Battalion prepares to save Ukraine from separatists
Pro-Russian armed militants of a so-called \"Eastern battalion\" taking part in military exercises rest at a camp in the forest near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on June 1, 2014.
