Mariupol: The Final Line of Defense - Russian Roulette (Dispatch 99)

Mar 11, 2015 on Viceland (US) at 12:00 AM

Summary

The eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is just 30 kilometers from the Russian border, and was previously controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic. The Ukrainian military has done its best to fortify the city after winning it back, but many be... (more)lieve that the pro-Russia separatists plan to seize control of it once again. In this dispatch from Ukraine, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky embeds with the Azov battalion as it prepares to defend Mariupol.

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