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A veteran of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, who fought both Nazis and Soviet forces in World War II, watches a remembrance ceremony for those who perished in a massacre by Soviet interior troops in the western Ukranian city of Lviv on June 22. Several thousand people were killed in Lviv by retreating Soviet forces after Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.

Ukrainian veteran remembers massacre 70 years later

By Chris A Wilson

It's hard to imagine what Ukrainian forces must have been feeling that day, as they had to fight both German and Soviet armies, two of the strongest forces in the war.

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