Ukraine crisis

Features and Analysis

• Surge in violence

  A new ceasefire deal is signed for eastern Ukraine - but recent clashes have been more intense

• Shattered lives

  Ukraine evacuees run gauntlet of shellfire and shortages

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• Battered army

  Rebel advance puts Ukraine leader on the ropes

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• Baptism of fire

  Russian military tests new systems in Ukraine

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• Caught in crossfire

  Civilians trapped by battle for town of Debaltseve

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• 'Holy war'

  Russian volunteers tell of crusade to revive an Orthodox empire.

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• Truce or dare

  Is Russia stoking war or pushing peace?

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• Inconvenient truth

  Ukraine fails to address far-right role in conflict

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• Promising too much

  West risks overplaying its hand in Ukraine

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• Ceasefire that never was

  Fiction of the September truce

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• Year of chaotic events

  Novelist Andrey Kurkov grapples with Ukraine turmoil

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• Child soldiers

  Teenagers involved on both sides of the conflict

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• Ukraine's 'cyborgs'

  The fighters defending Donetsk airport against rebels

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• Chaos and courage

  Personal stories from areas that are voting and areas that are not

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• School in a war zone

  Donetsk children return to school a month late and amid tragedy

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• Key players in east

  Profiles of key figures involved on both sides

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• 'Secret burials'

  Russian journalists try to investigate soldiers' deaths

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