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“We didn’t believe something horrible would happen. We heard bombing from time-to-time, but never that close,” 17-year-old Oleh said about growing up in Ukraine’s Hnutove, a village about 20 kilometres east of Mariupol bordering the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic. Many forget that Russia’s war on Ukraine started in 2014, shortly afterUkraine’s Revolution of Dignity, followed by the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea and the support for pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas. The 2017 award-winning documentary The Distant Barking of Dogs captured Rus…

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