On the social media accounts of a group of young foreign visitors touring the Russian-occupied part of Donetsk Oblast, the war-ravaged region is presented as an appealing travel destination.
In Instagram videos, the visitors release white doves — symbols of peace — into the sky and stroll through the Mariupol Drama Theater, rebuilt after Russian forces destroyed it during the 2022 siege. But their next stop is a shooting range, puncturing the fragile illusion of peace they have carefully constr