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Mayor: Russians make Mariupol residents help them in exchange for access to drinking water.

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Mayor Vadym Boichenko said on national television that Mariupol residents don’t have access to normal supply of drinking water since April. Citizens can get the water brought by Russian troops in exchange for working on disassembling blockages, “helping them hide war crimes,” the mayor added.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

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