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Several times a day, a pair of aging railway cars trundle across a bridge over the Tisza river between Hungary and Ukraine, through a border crossing that on the eastern side is called “Druzhba”.

The name means “friendship” in Ukrainian – and now it feels like a hostage to fortune as neighborly relations turn sour.

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