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Russian forces said on Saturday they had captured another village in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv said five civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the south and east. Russian forces “liberated the settlement of Zhelannoye Vtoroye” in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the defense ministry said, using the Russian name for the village of Zhelanne Druge. The village is located close to Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian army that is threatened by the advance of Russian troops. Prosecutors in the Donetsk region said two civilians, a 65-year-old woman and an 86-year-old man, were killed in the cit…

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