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LVIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian paratrooper Oleksandr Mashonkin suffers from constant headaches and stabbing pains throughout his ribcage. He wakes up at home with a start, imaging himself back in the basement of the state security building in the separatist-held city of Donetsk.

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