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Frankfurter Allgemeine: Russian fleeing mobilization could apply for asylum in Germany.

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Interior Ministry Nancy Faeser told the newspaper that Russians who oppose the regime and flee the country could be accepted as those running from "political persecution." "As a rule, deserters threatened by severe repression receive international protection in Germany," Faeser said, adding that granting asylum is a case-by-case decision.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

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