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Russian military kills 9 civilians, wounds 6 in Donetsk Oblast on May 16.

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Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported that three people were killed in the city of Lyman, two in Avdiivka, and others in four other settlements. Currently, there is no information about the victims in the besieged Mariupol and the destroyed city of Volnovakha.

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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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