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Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi said the community of Krasnopillia was shelled seven times over the course of Aug. 19 and the community of Shalyhyne was targeted at least 40 times. There are no casualties or infrastructure damage reported at the time of the publication.

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