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- The New Voice of Ukraine
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VALENTYNA ROMANENKO - SUNDAY, 7 AUGUST, 10:39 The front-line cities suffer from the Russian rocket artillery strikes; [the artillery equipment] should be destroyed in the places where the fire originates.