Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
03/08/2017 - Ukraine - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/08/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/08/2017 - Ukraine - Separatists leave in a vehicle for another position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/08/2017 - Ukraine - Separatists leave in a vehicle for another position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
03/09/2017 - Ukraine - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
03/09/2017 - Ukraine - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
03/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
03/09/2017 - Ukraine - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
03/09/2017 - Ukraine - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
05/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - A separatist observes the positions of the Ukrainian enemy. The level of violence has been lower since 2015, but the bloodbath has not completely stopped. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
05/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
05/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
05/09/2017 - Ukraine - A separatist leaves to take his place. They bring back heavy sandbags to reinforce the protection of their position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
05/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Attack and Reconnaissance battalion №4 (part of special operations Regiment, subordinated to the minister of defence of DPR) Commander «Fomich» (codename) - Sergei Fomchenkov In August 2017 the war in the Donbass continues. Despite the ceasefire almost every day the OSCE notes exchanges of fire from two sides: Ukraine and People's Republic of Donetsk DPR.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - The separatists have several tasks to perform in the morning. They bring back heavy sandbags to reinforce the protection of their position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - The separatists have several tasks to perform in the morning. They bring back heavy sandbags to reinforce the protection of their position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - The separatists have several tasks to perform in the morning. They bring back heavy sandbags to reinforce the protection of their position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - During a small free time pro-Russian separatists play domino. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - During a small free time pro-Russian separatists play domino. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Separatists leave in a vehicle for another position. Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
06/09/2017 - Ukraine - Vostok is a Russian-speaking separatist armed group active in eastern Ukraine. With a strength of around 2500 men, it is one of the main military components of the Donetsk People's Republic and shares its operational zone with the Oplot Battalion.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
10/09/2017 - Ukraine - Donetsk is the main city in the hands of separatists in Ukraine. Lenin Square is decorated with DNR flags and red flowers.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - From the beginning of the war, their parents, gone to the front, lost their job. Now they eat what they harvest in their garden.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Vitia lives with her family on the separatist front line of Ukraine. he does not seem to care when he hears gunshots.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Living conditions are difficult for Alexandr, living at the front line near Donetsk, the separatist side of Ukraine.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine - The children who leave do not stop to go to school. Every day, they take the bus that brings them there.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - The children who leave do not stop to go to school. Every day, they take the bus that brings them there.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine - Tatiana in her cellar asks God to stop the war in Donbass. The children left the house, the neighbors left the village. Now she only talks with her husband and the men of the militia.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Tatiana in her cellar asks God to stop the war in Donbass. The children left the house, the neighbors left the village. Now she only talks with her husband and the men of the militia.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
11/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Tatiana and her husband are scarred by bullet holes on their skin.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
15/09/2017 - Ukraine - Sawur-Mohyla: Here, September 7, 2017, the day of the liberation of Donbass, celebrated by veterans of the Second World War and even the children are dressed in uniforms.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
15/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Sawur-Mohyla: Here, September 7, 2017, the day of the liberation of Donbass, celebrated by veterans of the Second World War and even the children are dressed in uniforms.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
15/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Sawur-Mohyla: Here, September 7, 2017, the day of the liberation of Donbass, celebrated by veterans of the Second World War and even the children are dressed in uniforms.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
15/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Sawur-Mohyla: Here, September 7, 2017, the day of the liberation of Donbass, celebrated by veterans of the Second World War and even the children are dressed in uniforms.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
19/09/2017 - Ukraine - Some of the few families still live on the front line of the Separatists. Maryana and her family stayed here because they have no choice.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/09/2017 - Ukraine - Despite the cease-fire arrangements, firefights take place almost daily.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/09/2017 - Ukraine - Despite the cease-fire arrangements, firefights take place almost daily.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
21/09/2017 - Ukraine - A couple says hello. The volunteer soldier only returns very rarely.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
21/09/2017 - Ukraine - A couple says hello. The volunteer soldier only returns very rarely.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
21/09/2017 - Ukraine - A couple of lovers. Volodia is a sniper.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
21/09/2017 - Ukraine - A couple of lovers. Volodia is a sniper.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
25/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Kristina and Wiktoria (16) at home after a ballet class. Kievsky district.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
25/09/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk Oblast / Donetsk - Victoria in the bus. Kristina and Victoria are inseparable.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
01/08/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk - Separatist Battalion -Vostock- at the moment of rest. They volunteer and go home once every two weeks.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
01/08/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk - Donetsk Ballet Opera. These girls and boys dance despite the hostile situation of war that divides their country in two.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
01/08/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk - Donetsk Ballet Opera. These girls and boys dance despite the hostile situation of war that divides their country in two.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
19/08/2017 - Ukraine - All imports from countries other than Russia are stopped. The prices were raised.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
19/08/2017 - Ukraine - All imports from countries other than Russia are stopped. The prices were raised.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
19/08/2017 - Ukraine - All imports from countries other than Russia are stopped. The prices were raised.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
19/08/2017 - Ukraine - All imports from countries other than Russia are stopped. The prices were raised.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/08/2017 - Ukraine / Donetsk - Two Ukrainian twins are enjoying last moments after the summer. Their carelessness does not make us forget the front line which is just a few kilometers from the center.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/08/2017 - Ukraine - Young boys and girls jump from a bridge in Donetsk. The front line is a few kilometers from here, the curfew in the occupied Russian part of the Donetsk region has been restored from 23:00.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/08/2017 - Ukraine - Young boys and girls jump from a bridge in Donetsk. The front line is a few kilometers from here, the curfew in the occupied Russian part of the Donetsk region has been restored from 23:00.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/08/2017 - Ukraine - Young boys and girls jump from a bridge in Donetsk. The front line is a few kilometers from here, the curfew in the occupied Russian part of the Donetsk region has been restored from 23:00.

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Kamila Stepien / Le Pictorium -
Conflict in Ukraine -
20/08/2017 - Ukraine - Estrada in the Donetsk amusement park. One of the biggest problems of elderly residents is the very difficult access to pensions since the beginning of the war, because the banking system was suspended and the money came from the Kiev authorities.

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