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Police officers of the White Angels unit help an elderly woman walk into a van during an evacuation to safe areas, in Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Zelenskyy: West must relax targeting limits for Ukraine as glide bombs hammer front line

By Vasilisa Stepanenko and Evgeniy Maloetka - Associated Press

Damaged and burned vehicles are seen at a destroyed part of the Illich Iron &amp; Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, as smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal during heavy fighting, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, has been besieged by Russian troops and forces from self-proclaimed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine for more than six weeks. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

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In this image made from video taken on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, university student Maxim Kaluga, 21, speaks to the Associated Press in Donetsk, Ukraine. Five years after a deadly separatist conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, a generation of first-time voters in rebel-held Donetsk and Luhansk has been cut off from Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday, March 31. (AP photo)

Separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine divides young voters

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Miners sit on a bus after an explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk, Ukraine Wednesday March 4, 2015. An explosion took place underground at the Zasyadko coal mine in war-torn eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Coal mine blast in eastern Ukraine kills 1, traps dozens

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, inspects military armored personnel carriers during his visit to the State Border Guard Service in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Fierce fighting in Ukraine as cease-fire deadline approaches

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In this Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, photo, Sergei Baryshnikov, the new pro-Russian head of Donetsk National University, speaks in his office at the university in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Baryshnikov, who stayed behind in Donetsk to head up the rebel-controlled university, said work is now afoot to modify the curriculum in line with the evolving situation. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)

Ukraine’s rebel university goes Russian

By Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Ukraine: Security deteriorating in rebel-held east

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Election officials empty a ballot box during rebel elections at a polling station in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. The pro-Russian rebels are holding the elections that were dismissed by Ukraine and the West as illegitimate. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Russia backs Ukrainians separatists’ election

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

The Ukrainian national emblem is seen through a sticker with the rebel eagle symbol and the words Donetsk Peoples Republic on the ballot boxes at a polling station in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. On Sunday Nov. 2 supreme council and presidential elections will be held in Donetsk Peoples Republic. The eagle is a symbol of rebels Donetsk Peoples Republic, being placed over the trident national emblem of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine rebels to hold election: ‘We are legitimizing our government’

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Coal miners stuck in the middle of Ukraine’s war

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

A soldier of the Ukrainian army sits on a tank in the port city of Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The Ukrainian president declared a cease-fire Friday to end nearly five months of fighting in the nation's east after his representatives reached a deal with the Russian-backed rebels at peace talks in Minsk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine cease-fire appears to hold

By Jim Heintz and Laura Mills - Associated Press

Ukrainian troops inch closer to rebel city Donetsk

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

People walking among burning debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Fighting intensifies near MH17 disaster site

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In this photo taken on Thursday, July 17, 2014, Donetsk People's Republic fighters fill their tank with fuel at a gas station in Snizhne, 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk from pro-Russia rebels

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Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski whose daughter, 25-year-old Fatima, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, sit on part of the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Hrabove, Ukraine, Saturday, July 26, 2014. The couple who live in Perth, Australia, crossed territory held by pro-Russian rebels to reach the wreckage-strewn farm fields outside the village of Hrabove. They last spoke to Fatima shortly before she boarded the flight for Kuala Lumpur in Amsterdam on July 17. Rudhart-Dyczynski said, &quot;We have promised our daughter we will come here.&quot; (AP Photo/Nicholas Garriga)

Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk

By AYSE WIETING and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, a group of foreign defense attaches inspect at a yard and a house after shelling the Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine rebels reclaim village on Russian border

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

People walk under a destroyed railroad bridge over a main road leading into the east Ukraine city of Donetsk, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, 20 km North from the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 7, 2014. The bridge has been destroyed, blocking a key access route to the rebel-held city. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

3 bridges blown up in Ukraine to block rebel city

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

A Ukrainian paratrooper sits in an APC at a checkpoint near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 5, 2014. Ukraine's forces claimed a significant success against pro-Russian insurgents on Saturday, chasing them from one of their strongholds in the embattled east of the country. Rebels fleeing from the city of Slovyansk vowed to regroup elsewhere and fight on. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine claims victory in pro-Russian rebel stronghold

By Yuras Karmanau and Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

Valentina, who gave only her first name, gestures in a flat of her neighbor who was injured during shelling in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 3, 2014. Residential areas came under shelling on Thursday from government forces. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine: Rebels attack from both sides of border

By David McHugh - Associated Press