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Four civilians were killed and a further three were injured by Russian bombardment in the Niu-York, or New York, settlement in eastern Ukraine, prosecutors in the Donetsk region reported on Friday. Among the weapons used was a 250-kilogram glide bomb that damaged several residential blocks. Russian forces have recently intensified attacks along the front near the town of Toretsk, which lies some 40 kilometres north of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk. They have secured minor territorial gains. According to the local authority, at least three people were killed and almost 20 wer…