Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Friday that Russia had lost at least a brigade trying to capture the embattled city, whose location provides Ukrainian forces with artillery advantages over the city of Donetsk and could serve as a launch pad for them to liberate the rest of the region.
Russia accuses Ukraine of damaging a nuclear waste warehouse as the battle for Avdiivika grinds on
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At a leadership conference in Seoul, South Korea on July 13, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the camps, "All those deported people are deprived of means of communication, their documents are taken away from them, they are intimidated and taken to remote areas of Russia to make it as difficult as possible for them to return to their homeland."
Russia intensifies efforts to deport Ukrainians through 'filtration centers,' U.S. officials say
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