The Displaced: Oleg (Published 2015)

Oleg Teryokhin was living with his mother and father in Nikishino, a rural village of fewer than 1,000 coal miners, farmers and their families in eastern Ukraine, when fighting broke out in April 2014. Hastily formed separatist militias, goaded and armed by Moscow, rose up in a rebellion against a new, pro-Western government in Kiev. In the first months of the conflict, the fighting was far from N

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11.5 ニキシノ Oleg’s family, along with a few dozen others, returned to the village. They discovered her father’s body in the backyard of his house. He had probably been killed by shrapnel and had lain frozen outside for months. “Before the war, I visited him every day,” Oleg, now 11, sa