NOVOPAVLIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Standing beside a bombed-out milling plant in his village, Mykola Havrylov said he felt powerless watching U.S. and Russian officials discussing an end to a three-year-old war that is creeping ever closer to his home in southeastern Ukraine.
Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops is now just eight miles (13 km) from Novopavlivka, a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where residents like Havrylov voiced concern about Ukraine's exclusion from U.S.-Russia talks this week.
