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The Week in Eastern Ukraine

The conflict between Ukrainien forces and Russia backed rebels intensified over the past week in the frontline city of Avdiivka, leaving the city without water or electricity and forcing some residents to flee.

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PARTING WAYS Nastia Zagarazhnuk (top L) and Maria Kosova are among several dozen children and elderly aboard a bus evacuating civilians to the town of Sviatohirsk, as their mothers Ira Kosova (bottom L) and Sveta Zagarazhnuk say goodbye, in Avdiivka on Feb. 3.

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BRINGING LIGHT Maryna Bondas, a Ukrainian violinist who normally plays in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, during a performance in a family home on Feb. 2. Bondas came back to her homeland as a volunteer to give concerts to government troops and school children in Avdiivka.

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ON PATROL Ukrainian soldiers and tanks patrol the streets in Avdiivka on Feb. 2.

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HUMANITARIAN AID Residents pull boxes containing aid items across the street after a night of shelling in Avdiivka on Feb. 1.

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STAYING CONNECTED A woman enters a tent to charge her phone at the humanitarian aid center in Avdiivka on Feb. 3.

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SEEKING PROTECTION Children in a hostel, after being evacuated from their home to escape heavy shelling, in Donetsk on Feb. 2.

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LOVED ONE LOST Nadiya Volkova grieves over the body of her mother, whi was killed by shelling as she walked to the store, in Avdiivka on Feb. 1.

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HELPING HANDS Volunteers register residents for humanitarian assistance inside a school in Avdiivka on Feb. 3.