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Russia admits tourists not coming to occupied Crimea this year.

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According to Serhiy Aksyonov, a Russia-installed leader in the occupied Crimea, the flow of tourists in June deсreased by 40% compared with the same month previous year. Aksyonov also claimed that next year, the sea resorts in the parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts that Russia currently occupied will be open for tourists. Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities say that President Volodymyr Zelensky wants the military to reclaim the occupied territories in southern Ukraine.

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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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