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  • Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 rests in a field near Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_03.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_11.jpg
  • DRUZHKIVKA, UKRAINE - April 15, 2014: Pro-Russia activists take guard at a newly build checkpoint outside Druzhkivka. In past couple of weeks, several cities and villages in the eastern regions of Ukraine, have been taken under control by separatists militias who rejected the newly appointed government in Kiev.
    UkraineCrisis_Slavyansk_04.jpg
  • An elderly woman votes in a referendum about secession from Ukraine, in central Donetsk.
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  • An anti-government protestor takes a rest at the occupied Ukraine House in central Kiev, hours after violent confrontations with a group of riot police taken refuge inside the building.
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  • Tearsheet of "Tensions in eastern Ukraine" published in Expresso
    Expresso_Donetsk_03.jpg
  • Screengrab of "In Pictures: Ukraine's exposed war-displaced" published in Al Jazeera English
    AJ_DonetskShelling.jpg
  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: escalada de violence cria cidades-fantasmas" published in Expresso
    Donetsk_Expresso.jpg
  • Two men cross the Dnieper river by boat in Kherson, Ukraine.
    UkraineCrisis_Kherson_01.jpg
  • January 26, 2014 - Kiev, Ukraine: Ukrainian protesters laid siege to Ukrainian House international convention center, a Soviet-era building in central Kiev, used as a base by the security forces, who remained holed up inside.

Some two thousand stick-wielding protesters clad in helmets threw Molotov cocktails and smashed in windows of the Ukrainian House, climbing over sandbags into the building. The security forces protected themselves with riot shields as well as by hurling stun grenades and attempting to douse the protesters with jets of water.

The protesters later in the night formed a corridor on the steps of the building to allow the security forces to leave. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)
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  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: um dia a morte cai do ceu" published in Expresso
    Grabovo_EXPRESSO.jpg
  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: Signs of War at East" published in Expresso
    EXPRESSO_SignsOfWarAtEast.jpg
  • A babushka prepares food at a self-defence group’s tent near the Crimean border, in the Kherson region of Ukraine.
    UkraineCrisis_Kherson_03.jpg
  • Tearsheet (cover) of "Tensions in eastern Ukraine" published in Expresso
    Expresso_Donetsk_Cover_03.jpg
  • January 25, 2014 - Kiev, Ukraine: Anti-government protestors take guard a beside a fire at the barricades set up days before outside Dynamo Kiev's stadium in Kiev. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)
    PNS_KievProtests_066.jpg
  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: Kiev protests" published in Expresso
    EXPRESSO_KievProtests_01.jpg
  • Screengrab of "In Pictures: Ukraine's exposed war-displaced" published in Al Jazeera English
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  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: AZOV Battalion" published in Expresso
    AZOV_EXPRESSO.jpg
  • A woman marks her vote at a polling station in School Number 1, in central Donetsk. Polling stations have opened in cities across the eastern Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk as residents go to polls to vote for seceding from Ukraine and creating a quasi-independent state in an act declared illegal by the central government in Kyiv and the West but supported by Russia.
    Ukarine_DonetskReferendum_01.jpg
  • KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - April 16, 2014: The commander of a column of Ukrainian men riding on armoured personnel carriers and tanks, blocked by pro-Russia activists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, attempts to negotiate with the protestors a free passage for the convoy.
    UkraineCrisis_Kramatorsk_08.jpg
  • KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - April 16, 2014: Pro-Russia activists, in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, bring to an halt a column of Ukrainian military men and war tanks heading towards the city's airfield, where the National Guard is establishing base for a mega anti-terrorist operation announced by the government in Kiev, in order to regain the control of several locations taken under control by separatist militias.
    UkraineCrisis_Kramatorsk_02.jpg
  • "Tensions bubble in east Ukraine" published in Al Jazeera
    AlJazeera_Donetsk.jpg
  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: Pro-Russia protests in Donetsk" published in Expresso
    EXPRESSO_Pro-RussiaInDonetsk_01.jpg
  • Tearsheet of "Ukraine: Tears at Ott's house" published in Expresso
    EXPRESSO_OttFuneral.jpg
  • Family members pay respect to the body of Alexey Vorobyov, a bystander shot dead two days earlier during a gunfight between Ukrainian soldier and armed pro-Russia separatist groups in central Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.
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  • People examine a destroyed armoured personnel carrier in Oktyabrskaya, eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian militants ambushed Ukrainian troops nearby the day before, killing seven and wounding another eight in the most deadly attack yet on Ukrainian forces.
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  • KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - April 16, 2014: A column of Ukrainian military men riding on armoured personnel carriers and tanks are blocked by pro-Russia activists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.
    UkraineCrisis_Kramatorsk_01.jpg
  • DONETSK, UKRAINE - April 17, 2014: A Ukrainian policeman takes guard at a pro-Ukraine rally in central Donetsk.
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  • DONETSK, UKRAINE - April 17, 2014: Ukrainian riot policemen take guard at a pro-Ukraine rally in central Donetsk.
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  • DONETSK, UKRAINE - April 17, 2014: Ukrainian riot policemen take guard at a pro-Ukraine rally in central Donetsk.
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  • DONETSK, UKRAINE - April 17, 2014: Hundreds of pro-Ukraine protestors rally in support of an unified country, in central Donetsk.
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  • A statue of Vladimir Lenin can be seen reflecting in a puddle in Slavyansk main square, a small city taken under control by pro-Russia activists and militiamen.
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  • IDPs at a bomb shelter in Petrovskiy district of Donetsk socialize outside the shelter during a pause in the fighting between DNR separatist combatants and the Ukrainian National Guard for the control of Donetsk city. More than one hundred people have been living for the past four months at the shelter.
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  • A local IDP comforts a child at a Soviet era bomb shelter in Petrovskiy district, Donetsk. The daily routine of the almost hundred people living here for the past four months, can be tedious as the regular shellfire between DNR rebels and the Ukrainian National Guard is a constant threat that constrain them to stay underground most of the time.
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  • A group of young men inside an improvised bomb shelter in the basement of a residential building in central Donetsk.
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  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_13.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_12.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_05.jpg
  • A local resident cools down at a shade of a tree, meters from the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near Grabovo town in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_01.jpg
  • OSCE spokesperson Alexander Hug and a local rebel leader, negotiate safe passage for the International expert team members looking for evidences at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_19.jpg
  • OSCE spokesperson Alexander Hug and a local rebel leader, negotiate safe passage for the International expert team members looking for evidences at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_18.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_09.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_06.jpg
  • Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 rests in a field near Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_04.jpg
  • Members of the search and rescue team search the field around the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the Grabovo town in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_20.jpg
  • Local women react emotionally as they pass by the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_15.jpg
  • Locals pass by the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_14.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_10.jpg
  • A pair of used plastic gloves are seen laying at the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_02.jpg
  • Locals attend a religious ceremony at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_07.jpg
  • Locals pass by the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in Grabovo, a small rural village in the province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack.
    PNS_Ukraine_MH17CrashSite_08.jpg
  • December 18, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: A man looks at a wall decorated with pictures of Ukraine's jailed former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, near Independence Square.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors gather burned debris to fill in bags to be used in the formation of barricades, as violent clashes happen between protestors and police outside Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: An anti-government protestors takes cover behind newly build barricades at the frontline where violent clashes were happening between protestors and riot police outside Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors carry scrap metal to be used in new defensive barricades, as violent clashes between protestors and riot police happen outside Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
    PNS_Kiev_Barricade_16.jpg
  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors prepare petrol bombs near a barricade in Maidan, hours after violent clashes between protestors and riot police happened outside Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
    PNS_Kiev_Barricade_24.jpg
  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: An Orthodox priest blesses the bodies of anti-government protestors shot dead during an advance on police lines outside the Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • January 26, 2014 - Kiev, Ukraine: A anti-government protestor takes a rest at the occupied Ukraine House, hours after violent confrontations with the riot police. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)
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  • January 26, 2014 - Kiev, Ukraine: Anti-government protestors visit the recently taken Ukraine House in central Kiev. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: People check the bodies of anti-government protestors shot dead during an advance on police lines outside the Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
    PNS_Kiev_Barricade_19.jpg
  • December 18, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: Pro-EU demonstrators get food donated inside the occupied City Hall.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)
    PNS_Kiev_Barricade_11.jpg
  • Meals are served inside a tent housing a Ukrainian self-defence group near the Crimean border in Kherson.
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  • Locals cross the Dnieper river by boat in Kherson, a region bordering Crimea.
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  • Funeral procession of anti-government protestors killed two days ago during clashes with riot police in central Kiev.
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  • A road to Donetsk, blocked by a bombed railway bridge and a train.
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  • A Ukrainian man kisses the Donetsk regional flag as pro-Russia protesters gathered in front of a Ukrainian airbase in Kramatorsk, 24 hours after the army regain control of the airbase in an operation that reportedly end up with the death of four pro-Russia militia men.
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  • Wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 rests on a field in Grabovo.
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  • A religious ceremony taking place at the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site in Grabovo.
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  • A column of Ukrainian military men riding on armoured personnel carriers and tanks are blocked by pro-Russia activists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.
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  • People in Odessa pray in protest against the Russian annexation of Crimea.
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 24, 2014: People pass by a a building where several anti-government protestors lost their life as when of the attempt to take the Ukraine parliament building in Kiev. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • December 19, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: Pro-EU demonstrators prepare food for free distribution at  the Independence Square.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
    KievProtests_32.jpg
  • December 18, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: Pro-EU demonstrators rally at Independence Square, also known as Maidan.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 18, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: Local women look at a barricade in Independence Square.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • The funeral of Elena Ott, a 42 year old woman shot dead by the army near Starovarvarovka.
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  • A slavic cross is seen near a newly build checkpoint outside Slavyansk. The eastern Ukranian city was taken under control by a pro-Russia militia.
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 22, 2014: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the newly designated Prime Minister-designate of the unity government in Ukraine, talk to the parliament in Kiev. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • December 19, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: A pro-EU demonstrator guards an access to the Independence Square.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
    KievProtests_40.jpg
  • December 18, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: A pro-EU demonstrator passes by anti-government posters in Independence Square.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 18, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: A local woman looks at Pro-EU panflets stick to the back of a bus stop in Independence Square, known locally as Maidan.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • A funeral procession in Starovarvarovka.
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  • An elderly woman takes shelter in the basement of a former factory in Donetsk.
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  • A military uniform lays among destroyed crops days after a battle near Petrovskiy.
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  • Local volunteers clean a school gymnasium damaged by shell-fire in Donetsk
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  • Donetsk Concert Hall, damaged by the shockwave from a missile launched on chemical plant by the Ukrainian army.
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  • A man kisses the Donbass flag raised outside a military airbase near Kramatorsk.
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  • A desk lamp illuminates the decayed wall of a underground bomb shelter of a school outside Donetsk. During this period, several families were living here for several months to protect themselves from heavy exchange of shelling between pro-Russian separatist fighters and Ukrainian military forces.
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  • A nurse prepares tea and biscuits for blood donors at a blood bank in Donetsk, as military leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic visited the clinic to also donate blood.
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  • A column of Ukrainian men riding on armoured personnel carriers and tanks are blocked by pro-Russia activists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.
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  • A column of Ukrainian men riding on armoured personnel carriers and tanks are blocked by pro-Russia activists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.
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  • A column of Ukrainian men riding on armoured personnel carriers and tanks are blocked by pro-Russia activists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.
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  • People gather around a group of pro-Russia activists, taking guard at a newly build checkpoint outside Slavyansk. The eastern Ukranian city was taken under control by a pro-Russia militia.
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors rush to safety a man injured during an advance on police lines outside the Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 24, 2014: Members of Maidan's defence unit take guard outside Ukraine parliament building in Kiev. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors reinforce a barricade in Maidan, hours after violent clashes between protestors and riot police happened outside Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: General view of the Concert Hall, now used as a field clinic for anti-government protestors, in central Kiev. Hours earlier, riot police responded to an advance by protestors, with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors unload a truck full of tree trunks, to be used as a reinforce of defensive barricades in a access road to the parliament buildings in central Kiev. Hours earlier, riot police responded to an advance by protestors, with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • KIEV, UKRAINE - February 20, 2014: Anti-government protestors carry the body of a dead man, killed during violente clashes with the riot police outside Independence Square in central Kiev. The riot police responded to the advance with gunfire that, according to the opposition, killed at least 70 and as many as 100 people. The drastic escalation of the three-month-old Ukraine crisis left the country reeling from the most lethal violence in decades. CREDIT: Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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  • January 26, 2014 - Kiev, Ukraine: A anti-government protestors pass by the chattered glass doors of the Ukraine House, hours after violent confrontations with the riot police. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)
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