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Once Gleaming Donetsk Airport in Ukraine Is Now Battered Husk

Both sides saw strategic value in controlling the airport, but the fighting has rendered the airport unusable.
Destroyed commercial airplanes sit scattered on the runway of Donetsk Airport.
Destroyed commercial airplanes sit scattered on the runway of Donetsk Airport.Andrew Burton / Getty Images