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 :Does it help the reader, though? To clutter the text, and to provide yet more pictures of people standing around with flags? The answer to that question is no. We could source thousands of pictures of people standing around anywhere in Ukraine during this unrest, but we don't need thousands of pictures of people standing around. The content of the article does justify it, because the article is about the pro-Russian unrest. Since I largely wrote the sections you are referring to, I'm well aware of their content. I'm also aware that playing tit-for-tat with pictures is bad for the reader and poorly represents the reality on the ground.  —  "