DOKUCHAYEVSK, Ukraine—In this front-line town in eastern Ukraine, the cease-fire called more than three months ago seems to be only an insulting guise. Shelling rocks the area so often that dogs have learned to head for the basement at the first blast.
Everyone wants the shelling to stop, both the town’s civilians and the rebels who control it. That weariness points paradoxically toward new violence.
The rebels are itching for an end to the pretense and wish their leaders would give the order for a full-out assault.
“We’ve asked them for permission, but all they say is: ‘no, no, no,’” said one rebel sniper, who goes by the call-sign Rzhavy.
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