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Now playing Next Ukraine Governor of Donetsk urges more than 350,000 residents to flee Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told reporters that getting people out of Donetsk province is necessary to save lives and enable the Ukrainian army to better defend towns from the Russian advance, with Russia escalating its offensive. 06/07/2022
Now playing Next Ukraine Russia pushes ahead with war after claiming victory in Luhansk Ukraine's President Zelenskyy says "superhuman efforts" will be needed to defend the rest of the Donbas after Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the eastern Luhansk region. 05/07/2022
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Now playing Next no comment Aftermath of missile strikes in east Ukraine's Kramatorsk and on Sloviansk market Shelling in Kramatorsk, the administrative center of Ukraine's Donbas region, left a scene of wreckage and destruction. Not far from there, the aftermath of Russian shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk shows a market destroyed by numerous rocket launchers. 03/07/2022
Now playing Next Ukraine Ukraine: Kametstal steel plant challenges during Black Sea blockade While the Azovstal factory in the key city of Mariupol fell to Russian forces in mid-May, work continues from another site three hundred kilometres away at the Kametstal plant. 03/07/2022
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