Russian occupiers fired on more than 16 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, destroying or damaging 39 civilian facilities including homes, a school, a kindergarten, and a power line.
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On Tuesday, the occupiers fired on more than 16 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, destroying or damaging 39 civilian facilities, including 36 homes, a school, a kindergarten and a power line.
Footage published by the Mariupol City Council shows utility workers near the city sign and someone announcing the upcoming replacement of the Ukrainian spelling with the Russian one.
Russia plans to replace the city sign in Mariupol from Ukrainian to Russian.
Russia captured and destroyed Volnovakha in the first month of the war.
Russian occupiers sent SMS messages to subscribers of the Phoenix mobile operator in Mariupol offering work at the remand prison and correctional facility, allegedly from the DNR Ministry of Justice.
Adviser to the mayor Petro Andriushchenko reported that occupiers are recruiting workers for concentration camps in Mariupol.
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