In one of his first acts as Ukrainian president, comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelensky held out a symbolic olive branch to people in Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking Donbass region, by switching from Ukrainian to Russian.
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A Ukrainian soldier engages the enemy in the war zone near the town of Novoluhanske on June 14, 2019.
