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Video. Macron, Scholz ask Putin to free captured Azovstal fighters

Updated: 28/05/2022 - 20:26 GMT+2

Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged that the Donbas will remain Ukrainian as fighting intensified around several cities and towns in the eastern region.

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