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25. Leopards are coming

Battleground

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Chasiv-Yar Bachmut

Of the 12,000 pre-war population it still has a population of 5,000 which is absolutely incredible when you think that last summer the Russians hit one of the apartment blocks with what I assumed to be rockets and killed 46 or 48 people in one strike alone. There's this very sort of strong regional donbas identity they've lived there their parents have lived there. One lady said to me my grandparents are in the graveyard here how can I possibly go even if I have got a child how can Ipossibly leave? The local administration both the military well it's really the military administration there I mean they're angry about it and they want the children out he keeps telling the parents to take

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