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20 juin 2017, Mine de Butovka, Donbass, Ukraine. Leonid Tsimbal a 45 ans, il a rejoint l’armee 6 mois auparavant. Comme beaucoup de civil, il a fait ce choix pour "defendre l'avenir et l'independance de son pays et celui de sa famille  . 5 years exactly that continues the war in Ukraine, the agreements of Minsk I, II and III did not obtain convincing results. The diplomatic steps introduced by France and Germany to try to make Vladimir Putin yield remained vain.The Russian president stands to his position, he brings to the separatists his military support, while continuing to deny it. Far from the political comfort of lounges, in the east of Ukraine, the war remains and persists between pro-Russian separatist rebels and the Ukrainian army.On the Ukrainian front, it is a war of trench, a slow war, a war of attrition. At the bottom of these long intestines of ground, in buildings destroyed by firings of heavy weapons of the men charge rifles, observe the horizon, wait The torture of the expectation days after days, this long wait or a simple action leads the day. We play the time, the game of needles, the game of the peace preceding the storm. In the trenches of Donbass they wait for the often night-battle, they wait for the dawn and the end of the firings of rocket and shells. An daily life settled down among these men but the soldiers suffer from this invisible tension, The looks get lost on the ground, in the space, in the smoke of a short-lived cigarette. A nth one which begins all the time to die between the fingers of the soldier. In the reality of the war, far away of the politic lounges, they live under rubble, the underground two feet.//GIRBESGAELLE_1501.7603/Credit:Gaalle Girbes/SIPA/1806291736