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Death toll in Russia’s airstrike on Bakhmut grows to 5 people.

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On May 17, the Russian military dropped a bomb on a five-story apartment building in Bakhmut, a city of 73,000 in Donetsk Oblast. Among the victims was a two-year-old child, the regional prosecutor's office said. Four other civilians, including three children aged 9, 12 and 17, were seriously injured.

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