A Look At The 'Shadow War' That Is Playing Out In Eastern Ukraine

Inside A Nerve Center Of Ukraine’s Shadow War -- Mike Giglio, Buzzfeed

Home to masked militants, a growing number of captives, and a makeshift medical clinic, the separatist headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk is braced for war. Not far beneath the surface, one already seems to be raging.

DONETSK, Ukraine — As he sobered up through the long, strange night, the captive man grew more and more afraid.

He recalled the previous hours through a blur of alcohol and pain: drunkenly insulting a group of pro-Russia men, being clubbed and dragged to a makeshift base; and then the raised stakes when they found out who he was. He remembered an injection — maybe a truth serum, he thought, or something for the pain — and a videotaped confession, where he admitted to recruiting men to fight the separatists overrunning eastern Ukraine. Now he was in their nerve center, an 11-story government building in the regional capital of Donetsk ringed by razor wire and barricades. He was handcuffed to a chair in a busy hallway beneath fluorescent lights. Some of the armed men passing by bent down and threatened to kill him.

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My Comment: This Buzzfeed article focuses on what is happening in eastern Ukraine .... but this is also happening throughout the country as different groups jockey for power, money, and influence.