![]() I’m fed up with the fighting,” the 17-year-old student with auburn hair said next to a statue of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in central Donetsk. ![]() “Throughout my childhood in Donetsk, I heard the war - shelling, tanks rolling around the city,” Chebotayev told AFP, snow blanketing the war-scarred city. The sounds of shelling punctuate life around the industrial city of Donetsk, where younger residents are used to tanks rumbling down their streets and a curfew bringing an eerie quiet. Ruslan Chebotayev was just 10-years-old when pro-Russian separatists seized his hometown in eastern Ukraine, sparking fighting that he and other teenagers say has robbed them of hope and prospects. The separatist in Donetsk authorities last year introduced mandatory six-month-long military service at the age of 18 - Copyright AFP/File Niklas HALLE'N
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