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Governor: Russian airstrike hits Bakhmut.

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Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said Russian shells hit several buildings on May 19, and rescuers pulled 6 people out of the rubble. They are in a stable condition. On May 18, rescuers also found the bodies of a woman and a 2-year-old child under the rubble of a destroyed house in the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast.

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