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The town of #StanytsiaLuhanska in the #Donbas is in the news because of the brutal shelling it is undergoing from #Russia /separatist forces. This is one of most important communities in the development work I've been involved in since 2015. Here's a bit about Stanytsia. 1/
It is basically a rural suburb of Luhansk that functioned as the city's market garden. Most backyards are lined with plastic greenhouses for raising tomatoes and cucumbers. This so central to local identity that town seal is 🍅 hovering over a Cossack fortress. 2/
Stanytsia is across the Siversky Donets River from Luhansk. In 2014 became clear during brutal fighting that the river would become the stable front. Stanytsia would be severed from its market in the industrial and coal cities in the south of the region. 3/
