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Local official: Russian troops set up second ‘filtration prison’ near Mariupol

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Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to the Mariupol mayor, said that the local Ukrainian authorities discovered the second "filtration prison" near the city in what used to be a penal colony in Volnovakha, Donetsk Oblast. Over 20 volunteers who helped evacuate Mariupol residents to the Ukrainian-controlled territory are being detained there, he said.

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