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Ukrainian journalist’s war photo selected as AFP Picture of the Year 2020

Agence France Presse news agency has chosen a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier on the front line of the Donbas war as one of its best pictures of 2020. The photographer who captured the enigmatic image is Anatolii Stepanov, a Ukrainian freelance photojournalist. The photo depicts a Ukrainian soldier sheltering in a trench not far from the war zone city of Krasnohorivka, near the Russia-occupied city of Donetsk, as a cat looks down at him from the trench’s edge.

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