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General Staff: Russian forces remove prisoners from Kherson city colony

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The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported on Oct. 30 that Russia relocated prisoners from Kherson correctional facility and is using the correctional institution to house its military personnel and equipment. The Ukrainian army also recorded that close to a hundred representatives of the Russian National Guard from the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, have arrived in Kherson Oblast's Kalanchak.

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