SVITLODARSK, Ukraine — As the world celebrated Christmas on Dec. 25, Ukrainian soldiers and Russian-backed separatists were exchanging the dead bodies of their comrades — two for two.
These were some of the fighters killed as result of a week-long escalation on the frontline around Svitlodarsk in Donetsk Oblast, called by Ukrainian military authorities the “Svitlodarsk curve” because of the contact line’s shape.
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