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Desperate civilians risk their lives along mined roads to escape from a Russian-held city

Desperate civilians risk their lives along mined roads to escape from a Russian-held city
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Food and medical supplies have been scarce for months in Oleshky, which sits on the Dnipro River that separates Ukrainian forces from the city’s Russian occupiers. There’s no electricity, heat or running water. Roads leading from town are mined and dotted with burned-out cars. Menacing drones buz...

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