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15-year-old volunteer killed by Russian shelling while evacuating animals from zoo.

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A team of staff and volunteers were evacuating African buffaloes from Feldman Ecopark, a zoo located on the outskirts of Kharkiv, and came under fire, its owner Oleksandr Feldman said. He added that two other people were also injured and that "the doctors are fighting for their lives."

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