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Russian airstrikes target Donetsk Oblast's Kramatorsk, injure 25 people.

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Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko reported that Russian airstrikes hit residential areas in the city overnight on May 5, damaging at least three high-rises, a school and a kindergarten. According to the mayor, at least six people needed hospitalization as a result of attack.

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