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Christoph Wanner has been reporting intensively on the escalating Ukraine crisis for months. The war in the east of the country, which has been going on since 2014, has already claimed the lives of 14,000 people and threatens to spread. For this special, the WELT reporter travels to the heavily affected Ukrainian-Russian border area, to the city of Verkhnjotorezke on the Ukrainian side. There he speaks to those who are at stake in this conflict but who are rarely heard: the people in this region who are suffering from the military conflict.