Hersan - The Russian Military Is Coming to Herson

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The russian retaliation was swift. We're receiving some information about people who was killed yesterday or two days ago, when the russians startedd to come inside the city. But Andrea said that in her son residence, remained undeterred. He told me he went out again a little bit over a week later. I did not expect that kind of resistance from civil people live in firson, but they do. Int i really like how people consolidated in hard time, and they given some resistance. And soon they was shooting to civil people. They had, like prefer to air from 18 57.

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