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VIDEO: Life in the Donbas region.

As Moscow battles for control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, the residents that have stayed behind live under constant fear. Attacks in the region have intensified with Russian forces capturing several eastern villages.
Underground life.

@AFP Yasuyoshi Chiba photographs internally displaced Ukrainians taking shelter in the bunker of Ostchem factory in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, on April 27 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Blasting techno, Kharkiv youth brave the bombs to deliver food.

With their red Opel Astra blaring techno music and the boot full to the brim with supplies, three Ukrainian volunteers deliver aid to Kharkiv neighbourhoods targeted by Russian rockets

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#BREAKING UN chief Guterres arrives in Borodianka in Kyiv region: AFP
#UPDATE UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in the town of Borodianka outside Kyiv where Russian forces are accused of having killed civilians.

Guterres is also expected to visit the town of Bucha ahead of talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky The Ukrainian flag flutters between buildings destroyed in b
#BREAKING UN Secretary-General Guterres urges Russia to 'cooperate with the ICC' on Ukraine
#BREAKING UN representative to Ukraine says preparing for 'hopeful' evacuation of Mariupol
#BREAKING Weapons deliveries by West to Ukraine 'threaten the security' of Europe: Kremlin spokesman
#BREAKING Kyiv has 'right' to strike Russian military targets: Ukraine presidential aide
VIDEO: 🇺🇦 UN Secretary-General Antonio #Guterres, speaking in #Bucha outside Kyiv on Thursday, appeals to Russia to 'cooperate' with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on investigations into possible war crimes carried out during its invasion of Ukraine
#BREAKING Bulgaria PM calls on Europe to be 'stronger', cut back on Russian gas use during Ukraine visit
#BREAKING Ten Russian soldiers being investigated for war crimes in Bucha: Ukraine prosecutors
#UPDATE UN Secretary-General Antonio #Guterres on Thursday visited sites of alleged Russian war crimes in #Ukraine, decrying war as "an absurdity in the 21st century" and urging Russia to cooperate with an international investigation into atrocities ▶️ u.afp.com/wXRm
#BREAKING UN Security Council "failed to do everything in its power to end war": Guterres
#UPDATE The Security Council failed to go far enough in its efforts to "prevent and end" Russia's war in Ukraine, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday while visiting Kyiv

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