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PRYVILLIA, Ukraine – Eighteen months after the last of the Kyiv-backed militiamen vacated this weary town near the front lines of Europe’s only active war, School No. 32 is a crime scene.

A former forward operating base for one of the ragtag “territorial defense battalions” recruited to defend Ukraine in its war against Russia-backed separatists in the east, the schoolhouse is cordoned off with razor wire.

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