It’s 4,000 miles from Ukraine

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Steve RosenbergRussia editor in Vladivostok

BBC A Russian ice hockey player with one leg enters the ice rink, wearing pads and a green jersey — All the players in Soyuz, the local Para ice hockey team, lost limbs fighting in Ukraine

At an ice rink in Vladivostok in Russia’s far east, 30-year-old Dmitry Afanasyev is in training with teammates…

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