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Andriyivka (Ukraine) (AFP) - Olga Vasilyevna thought that the night's shelling was finished when she took up her hoe and headed into the garden to tend to her potato patch. "I said to myself, 'thank God, it's over' and just as I started working I heard shhhhhhhhh overhead and then boom, boom, boom," the grey-haired pensioner told AFP. "Everyday they are shooting, from heavy machine guns and from automatic rifles and mortars," she told AFP over her wooden front gate, as she took a break from digging the soil. Over the past few weeks the unremarkable village of Andriyivka has gone from being a forgotten hamlet to the frontline of the increasingly deadly confrontation between Ukraine's army and separatist rebels that is tearing apart the region.
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