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Heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, the country’s military leadership said in Kiev on Saturday evening. “The situation was hottest today in the Pokrovsk area, but the enemy was also active in the direction of Lyman and Kurakhove,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in an evening situation report. All three cities are located in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. Over the course of the day, there were 123 battles, the report said. Of those, 41 were in the Pokrovsk region alone, and there were 19 and 17 attacks near Lyman and Kurakhove respectively, the report said. According to the…