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Official: Russian forces step up ‘filtration’ in occupied Mariupol, arrest local residents

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According to the adviser to Mariupol mayor, Petro Andriushchenko, Russian occupiers have recently increased the number of law enforcement patrolling the city and conducting ID checks. The official added that Russians are also stepping up the mobilization campaign among locals and conducting counter-partisan measures. First arrests of locals have already been reported, according to Andriushchenko.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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