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<p>It is firmly controlled by the Kremlin and pumps out relentless war propaganda. Ukrainians are said to shell their own cities, and Russian troops are presented as liberators. An authoritarian streak runs through Putin’s two decades in control of Russia and his government takes any opportunity it has to crush opposition and gag dissenters.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>The ISW does note that Russia's advances might be the result of Ukrainian forces withdrawing to "more defensible positions" near Robotyne. When Ukraine retook Robotyne in August it was hoped that its forces would be able to cut the land corridor to Crimea, making Moscow's supply lines more complicated. The attack on the Slavneft-YANOS refinery caused no fire or casualties, governor Mikhail Yevrayev said.</p><br /><br /><h2>What do Russians see and hear about the war in Ukraine?</h2><br /><br /><p>Mr Zelenskyy has called for public officials to disclose their incomes to increase transparency and eliminate corruption as Ukraine tries to meet the stringent requirements for its bid to join the European Union. Mr Szijarto will be in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak. Phillips P OBrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, wrote in an analysis piece&nbsp;that the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House could see the US "neuter" the Western military alliance. NPR's A Martinez talks to Julia Ioffe, founding partner of the media company Puck, about Russia's crack down on free speech which has led many media outlets to leave the country or go underground. Social media testimonies speak to a growing sense of panic, with some saying they are being rushed into bomb shelters and into basements.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Historically, Russia and countries that are a part of Nato have not always got on. Many people in Ukraine want the country to join Nato to avoid being dominated by Russia. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) is a military alliance of countries which includes the US and the UK. It is estimated the UK has spent £2.3bn on military assistance, making the country the second biggest military donor behind the US.</p><br /><br /><h3>Ukraine war: Why so many Russians turn a blind eye to the conflict</h3><br /><br /><p>“Not just us but all of Europe is living on this credit.” She added, “I want to mark my position as someone lacking objectivity. Even those who did agree to answer the questions in Miniailo’s survey displayed a heightened level of fear and discomfort. One man in his fifties said, “It is now prohibited by law to answer what you think about this topic. Russia's defence ministry has denied attacking Ukrainian cities - saying it was targeting military infrastructure, air defence and air forces with "high-precision weapons". The irony here is that while Moscow has been demanding Nato move its forces further westwards, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has achieved the exact opposite.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>But what kind of guarantees they would give independent Ukraine is not yet clear. Many who study and report on Russia, me included, believe a small percentage of people actively support the war, and a small percentage actively oppose it. [https://anotepad.com/notes/ifansti7 situation in Ukraine] suggest the majority of Russians, if not supporting the war, certainly do not oppose it.</p><br /><br /><h3>BBC News Services</h3><br /><br /><p>In the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion, I would walk for hours in the central Moscow district of Zamoskvorechiye, where I had lived and worked in the BBC office for seven years.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>That the Kremlin was right to block the majority of independent media sites they used to read.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>People I met in the park wondered whether the statue had been the intended target, or whether the missile had been meant to hit a nearby government installation, and been downed by an air-defense missile?</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>After graduating from the University of Liverpool he wrote for a number of British publications before joining AS USA in 2020.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"In one sense the situation now is far more perilous than it was in 1914 and 1939 because the major powers all have nuclear weapons.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>One man in his fifties said, “It is now prohibited by law to answer what you think about this topic.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region could offer a similar stepping stone but Russian forces are reported to have made some advances in the area.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>Even before the war, Russia was not the kind of place where you willy-nilly shared your political beliefs with strangers, let alone with those who called out of the blue. Russian air defences have prevented a drone attack on an oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, the regional governor has said. Hungary has signalled it is ready to compromise on EU funding for Ukraine - after Brussels reportedly prepared to sabotage its economy if it did not comply. Meanwhile, Moscow has claimed its forces have taken control of the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region. Then, as now, except for a few missile attacks, Lviv is probably one of the safest places to be in Ukraine, far from the front lines in the east and the south.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>A little earlier, we told you about a&nbsp;report in the Financial Times that the EU was proposing to sabotage Hungary's economy if Budapest blocks further aid for Ukraine this week.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"I think all we can do now as Russians is say sorry - and protest against Vladimir Putin," Anastasia says.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Social media testimonies speak to a growing sense of panic, with some saying they are being rushed into bomb shelters and into basements.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>One pattern identified by pollsters is that most Russians say they would support peace talks to end the fighting.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>Yet Volkov added that this tolerance, however passive, is likely to remain quite stable, even strong. “If I watched different channels, I would probably have a different opinion, but I don’t watch them,” she said. It’s not that she doesn’t know alternative information is out there, but that she doesn’t want it, lest her vision of the world come under threat. “It’s not about having to reconsider this one event but everything you thought and understood over the last ten or fifteen years,” Volkov told me.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv. But later on Thursday President Zelensky said Ukraine had suffered losses and a lot of aircraft and armoured vehicles had been destroyed. Convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country. The letter "Z" — initially used by Russian forces to identify their own on the battlefield — quickly became a potent pro-war propaganda tool for the Kremlin. One pattern identified by pollsters is that most Russians say they would support peace talks to end the fighting.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Here’s where Ukraine has mounted multiple attacks this week in the apparent beginning of its long-planned counteroffensive.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>While dissenting voices to Putin’s invasion are minimised in Russia, the scale and the intensity of the feeling of support for Ukraine means that the opposition cannot be entirely silenced by the Kremlin.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>In Belgorod, close to the Ukrainian border and just 80km (50 miles) from the now war-torn city of Kharkiv, local people are now used to convoys of military trucks roaring towards the front line.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>They have been offered the opportunity to live in other countries like Germany, France, Poland and the UK, with a chance of safety, food, healthcare and education for young people.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul>
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<p>The biggest prize for Russia is Kyiv, the capital city and seat of President Zelensky's government - a city where fighting has already been taking place. Before the war, Russia made demands including a promise that Ukraine would not join a group of countries called Nato. Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks are increasing again in some parts of the country but they have not yet had any significant impact. Despite towns and cities suffering heavy shelling, Ukraine has been successful in slowing Russia's troops down considerably and have even taken back control over the previously captured city of Kherson. But in the east of Ukraine where the country borders Russia, military troops are still fighting over territory and many places are still too dangerous for school of any kind. It follows a series of similar drone raids on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, some of which have disrupted fuel production.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>He has worked in both London and Moscow, where he became an expert on Russian propaganda. Now a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Pomerantsev shuttles between Washington, D.C., and Ukraine. [https://squareblogs.net/racingden14/where-to-find-espn-news-on-cablevision https://squareblogs.net/racingden14/where-to-find-espn-news-on-cablevision] asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine.</p><br /><br /><h2>Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 698</h2><br /><br /><p>The town is sometimes described as the gateway to the city of Donetsk, which has been occupied by Russia and its proxy forces since 2014. Taking Avdiivka - which lies close by - would allow Russia to push the front line back, making it harder for the Ukrainian forces to retake the territory. Only aircraft deployed to protect energy facilities, or those carrying top Russian or foreign officials, will be allowed to fly with special permission in the designated zones, according to the Vedomosti daily newspaper.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Balazs Orban, chief political aide to the prime minister, said Hungary sent a proposal to the EU over the weekend showing it was open to using the budget for the aid package if other "caveats" were added. Hungary previously said it would block further financial aid to Ukraine, but this morning suggested it was ready to compromise after the EU reportedly drew up plans to hit Budapest's economy. They’re under attack by a Russian Army whose soldiers — young men who have spent their entire lives under Mr. Putin — look forlorn and confused. They were told by their commanders that they were going to the Ukrainian border to take part in logistical drills, only to find themselves at war. Mr. Putin seemingly dreamed of a quick victory with Russian-speaking Ukrainians welcoming their “liberators” with flowers, the Ukrainian Army surrendering en masse and the country’s leaders fleeing in fear. Whatever military “victory” Mr. Putin might find acceptable in his twisted mind, Russia has already suffered a crushing moral defeat.</p><br /><br /><h3>Ukraine war: Why so many Russians turn a blind eye to the conflict</h3><br /><br /><p>Monitoring groups say more than 13,000 people have been detained at anti-war protests in the country since the start of the invasion. That the Kremlin was right to block the majority of independent media sites they used to read. Was hatred a natural and ultimately inevitable response to the atrocities Ukrainians were being subjected to? Does it change anything to know that many Russians oppose Putin’s war but are powerless to stop him, or to understand that others have been duped into supporting it through his hyper-nationalistic discourse? A few weeks after my trip, I contacted Peter Pomerantsev, who had accompanied me from Lviv to Kyiv. He had been born in Kyiv in 1977, when Ukraine was still a part of the Soviet Union, but was brought up and educated in the United Kingdom, after his parents went into exile there.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Hungary has now signalled its readiness for a compromise ahead of an emergency EU summit on Thursday.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Taking Avdiivka - which lies close by - would allow Russia to push the front line back, making it harder for the Ukrainian forces to retake the territory.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>A short respite came with the country’s independence, but then, in 2014, Vladimir Putin’s aggressions began in Crimea, and carried on afterward in the Donbas.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The gloves are off, the pretences dropped, diplomacy is dead - at least for now.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>He says Europe is rich enough to do so if it has the political will, pointing to a recent report from the Estonian Ministry of Defence suggesting that committing 0.25% of GDP annually towards Ukraine would provide "more than sufficient resources". If the US abandons the military alliance, it will fall to European countries to ensure a Ukrainian victory, Mr OBrien says. A prominent war expert has warned the US is on the verge of diminishing its support for or even withdrawing from NATO - and this could have catastrophic consequences for Europe. My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. It’s hard to find a Russian family without Ukrainian relatives and friends, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, chess partners and colleagues.</p><br /><br /><h2>About Sky News</h2><br /><br /><p>And it’s not just the usual suspects, the malcontents already known to the Kremlin. Major public figures, prominent journalists and artists have spoken out against the war. In mid-March, Aleksei Miniailo, a former social entrepreneur and current opposition politician, oversaw another telephone survey with the aim of trying to capture the effects of fear and propaganda on survey data. And that figure came from among those who agreed to participate at all; Miniailo suspected that the polls were not capturing a majority of the real antiwar sentiment, whatever its size.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>As well as the call-up, there is his threat of annexing more Ukrainian land and another nuclear warning for the West.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>There is more variety of opinion in the press, but it still largely sticks to the Kremlin line.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"It's to send in non-uniformed troops to stir up trouble, part of 'sub-threshold warfare'. I'm worried it will spill over into the Baltics."</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>He says Europe is rich enough to do so if it has the political will, pointing to a recent report from the Estonian Ministry of Defence suggesting that committing 0.25% of GDP annually towards Ukraine would provide "more than sufficient resources".</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>"Law enforcement agencies and special services are working at the scene," he wrote. The Russian president has intensified a crackdown on opposition since the start of his invasion of Ukraine, and this has ramped up further as the elections have approached. Meanwhile, Indian thinktank Observer Research Foundation's Russia expert, Nandan Unnikrishnan, said India was unlikely to sign "any major military deal" with Russia because it would cross a red line with the US. Unnamed Indian government sources have suggested India wants to distance itself from Russia, according to Reuters news agency. "A frank and constructive dialogue is expected to improve relations between states," the Ukrainian president's office said on its official channel on the Telegram messaging app alongside a photo of Mr Szijjarto, Mr Kuleba and Mr Yermak.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>To show key areas where advances are taking place we are also using updates from the UK Ministry of Defence and BBC research.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>And now, because of things like Visa and Mastercard pulling out of Russia, they can't even access their own funds.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Anyone accused of spreading "false information" about the military in Russia now faces up to 15 years in prison.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>The Ukraine government is working with other nations, including the UK, to try to help young people continue their education as much as possible. Ukrainian forces were also quick to deploy Western supplied arms such as the Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effective against the Russian advance. Russian ground troops moved in quickly and within a few weeks were in control of large areas of Ukraine and had advanced to the suburbs of Kyiv. Recent assessments by the ISW show Russian forces have made advances north of Bakhmut.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>“We’re all living on credit given to us by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” she said.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Even before the war, Russia was not the kind of place where you willy-nilly shared your political beliefs with strangers, let alone with those who called out of the blue.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Yet Volkov added that this tolerance, however passive, is likely to remain quite stable, even strong.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>But what kind of guarantees they would give independent Ukraine is not yet clear.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Sky News spoke to experts about whether World War Three is a possibility - and if we really are living in a "pre-war world".</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The Ukrainian General Staff says its forces have repelled Russian attacks near Avdiivka itself, as well as from settlements to the north west, south west, and directly west of the town.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul>

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The biggest prize for Russia is Kyiv, the capital city and seat of President Zelensky's government - a city where fighting has already been taking place. Before the war, Russia made demands including a promise that Ukraine would not join a group of countries called Nato. Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks are increasing again in some parts of the country but they have not yet had any significant impact. Despite towns and cities suffering heavy shelling, Ukraine has been successful in slowing Russia's troops down considerably and have even taken back control over the previously captured city of Kherson. But in the east of Ukraine where the country borders Russia, military troops are still fighting over territory and many places are still too dangerous for school of any kind. It follows a series of similar drone raids on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, some of which have disrupted fuel production.







He has worked in both London and Moscow, where he became an expert on Russian propaganda. Now a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Pomerantsev shuttles between Washington, D.C., and Ukraine. https://squareblogs.net/racingden14/where-to-find-espn-news-on-cablevision asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine.



Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 698



The town is sometimes described as the gateway to the city of Donetsk, which has been occupied by Russia and its proxy forces since 2014. Taking Avdiivka - which lies close by - would allow Russia to push the front line back, making it harder for the Ukrainian forces to retake the territory. Only aircraft deployed to protect energy facilities, or those carrying top Russian or foreign officials, will be allowed to fly with special permission in the designated zones, according to the Vedomosti daily newspaper.







Balazs Orban, chief political aide to the prime minister, said Hungary sent a proposal to the EU over the weekend showing it was open to using the budget for the aid package if other "caveats" were added. Hungary previously said it would block further financial aid to Ukraine, but this morning suggested it was ready to compromise after the EU reportedly drew up plans to hit Budapest's economy. They’re under attack by a Russian Army whose soldiers — young men who have spent their entire lives under Mr. Putin — look forlorn and confused. They were told by their commanders that they were going to the Ukrainian border to take part in logistical drills, only to find themselves at war. Mr. Putin seemingly dreamed of a quick victory with Russian-speaking Ukrainians welcoming their “liberators” with flowers, the Ukrainian Army surrendering en masse and the country’s leaders fleeing in fear. Whatever military “victory” Mr. Putin might find acceptable in his twisted mind, Russia has already suffered a crushing moral defeat.



Ukraine war: Why so many Russians turn a blind eye to the conflict



Monitoring groups say more than 13,000 people have been detained at anti-war protests in the country since the start of the invasion. That the Kremlin was right to block the majority of independent media sites they used to read. Was hatred a natural and ultimately inevitable response to the atrocities Ukrainians were being subjected to? Does it change anything to know that many Russians oppose Putin’s war but are powerless to stop him, or to understand that others have been duped into supporting it through his hyper-nationalistic discourse? A few weeks after my trip, I contacted Peter Pomerantsev, who had accompanied me from Lviv to Kyiv. He had been born in Kyiv in 1977, when Ukraine was still a part of the Soviet Union, but was brought up and educated in the United Kingdom, after his parents went into exile there.











  • My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv.








  • Hungary has now signalled its readiness for a compromise ahead of an emergency EU summit on Thursday.








  • Taking Avdiivka - which lies close by - would allow Russia to push the front line back, making it harder for the Ukrainian forces to retake the territory.








  • A short respite came with the country’s independence, but then, in 2014, Vladimir Putin’s aggressions began in Crimea, and carried on afterward in the Donbas.








  • The gloves are off, the pretences dropped, diplomacy is dead - at least for now.










He says Europe is rich enough to do so if it has the political will, pointing to a recent report from the Estonian Ministry of Defence suggesting that committing 0.25% of GDP annually towards Ukraine would provide "more than sufficient resources". If the US abandons the military alliance, it will fall to European countries to ensure a Ukrainian victory, Mr OBrien says. A prominent war expert has warned the US is on the verge of diminishing its support for or even withdrawing from NATO - and this could have catastrophic consequences for Europe. My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. It’s hard to find a Russian family without Ukrainian relatives and friends, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, chess partners and colleagues.



About Sky News



And it’s not just the usual suspects, the malcontents already known to the Kremlin. Major public figures, prominent journalists and artists have spoken out against the war. In mid-March, Aleksei Miniailo, a former social entrepreneur and current opposition politician, oversaw another telephone survey with the aim of trying to capture the effects of fear and propaganda on survey data. And that figure came from among those who agreed to participate at all; Miniailo suspected that the polls were not capturing a majority of the real antiwar sentiment, whatever its size.











  • As well as the call-up, there is his threat of annexing more Ukrainian land and another nuclear warning for the West.








  • There is more variety of opinion in the press, but it still largely sticks to the Kremlin line.








  • "It's to send in non-uniformed troops to stir up trouble, part of 'sub-threshold warfare'. I'm worried it will spill over into the Baltics."








  • He says Europe is rich enough to do so if it has the political will, pointing to a recent report from the Estonian Ministry of Defence suggesting that committing 0.25% of GDP annually towards Ukraine would provide "more than sufficient resources".










"Law enforcement agencies and special services are working at the scene," he wrote. The Russian president has intensified a crackdown on opposition since the start of his invasion of Ukraine, and this has ramped up further as the elections have approached. Meanwhile, Indian thinktank Observer Research Foundation's Russia expert, Nandan Unnikrishnan, said India was unlikely to sign "any major military deal" with Russia because it would cross a red line with the US. Unnamed Indian government sources have suggested India wants to distance itself from Russia, according to Reuters news agency. "A frank and constructive dialogue is expected to improve relations between states," the Ukrainian president's office said on its official channel on the Telegram messaging app alongside a photo of Mr Szijjarto, Mr Kuleba and Mr Yermak.











  • To show key areas where advances are taking place we are also using updates from the UK Ministry of Defence and BBC research.








  • And now, because of things like Visa and Mastercard pulling out of Russia, they can't even access their own funds.








  • Anyone accused of spreading "false information" about the military in Russia now faces up to 15 years in prison.










The Ukraine government is working with other nations, including the UK, to try to help young people continue their education as much as possible. Ukrainian forces were also quick to deploy Western supplied arms such as the Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effective against the Russian advance. Russian ground troops moved in quickly and within a few weeks were in control of large areas of Ukraine and had advanced to the suburbs of Kyiv. Recent assessments by the ISW show Russian forces have made advances north of Bakhmut.











  • “We’re all living on credit given to us by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” she said.








  • Even before the war, Russia was not the kind of place where you willy-nilly shared your political beliefs with strangers, let alone with those who called out of the blue.








  • Yet Volkov added that this tolerance, however passive, is likely to remain quite stable, even strong.








  • But what kind of guarantees they would give independent Ukraine is not yet clear.








  • Sky News spoke to experts about whether World War Three is a possibility - and if we really are living in a "pre-war world".








  • The Ukrainian General Staff says its forces have repelled Russian attacks near Avdiivka itself, as well as from settlements to the north west, south west, and directly west of the town.








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