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May 18, 2022, 5 tweets

"All the city is my house, all the city (is) my gallery"

Street artist Gamlet Zinkivsky has remained in his hometown of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, to paint its walls even amid the destruction of Russia's invasion

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Ukraine is seeking to evacuate the last soldiers holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol as the first war crimes trial of a Russian soldier since the invasion began is set to get under way in Kyiv

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VIDEO: Villagers in eastern Ukraine hope for 'counter-offensive'

Outside 84-year-old Oleksiy's cellar-turned-bomb shelter, Ukrainian firemen are braving the roads being pelted by advancing Russians

#BREAKING 959 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered at Azovstal since Monday: Russian ministry

#UPDATE Russia's defence ministry said Wednesday that 959 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol

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