Ukrainians not panicking as West ramps up invasion rhetoric
Ukrainian serviceman Ivan Skuratovskyi, left, prepares to have lunch before patrolling a frontline position outside Avdiivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is balancing worries about a military invasion with fears that alarm-ringing could wreck Ukraine’s economy without hardly a shot fired, with a heightened awareness that Ukrainian public opinion is divided on how to handle the situation, especially when it comes to concessions toward pro-Russian separatists in the east. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
By INNA VARENYTSIA, LORI HINNANT and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Associated Press
ADIIVKA, Ukraine — In the trenches of eastern Ukraine, across the tense contact lines with Russia-backed separatists, a soldier's calm verges on numbness after a sniper's bullet recently killed one of the 50 or so men under his command....
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