Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster

Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster

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No one wants to do Major Serhiy Laziuk’s job. He travels from house to house in Lviv, western Ukraine, bringing families news of their loved ones at the front who are killed or missing in action. ‘I tell them I have a sealed letter, that I must deliver by hand,’ he says. Then he ...  Show more

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