The small Ukrainian town of Avdiyivka is unknown to most people. Nestled in the east of Ukraine, just two kilometers from the contact line with the occupied Donbass region, it’s a town that has seen most of its population flee after relentless shelling and gunfire by Russian-led forces. Avdiyivka was once a bustling town of heavy industry, as its coke plant – amazingly still running — stands as a reminder of. It is now a battered ghost town that has been filleted of its citizenry and its soul.
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A field of dead trees stripped bare by gunfire and shelling stands in no-man's land between the combat lines of Ukrainian forces and Russian-led troops at the Promzona area of the front line near Avdiyivka, eastern Ukraine, on June 21, 2018.
