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Russia has begun its long-expected large-scale military action to seize the east of Ukraine, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address late on Monday night.
Now we can already state that the Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbas, for which they have been preparing for a long time … a significant part of the entire Russian army is now concentrated on this offensive”.
The second phase of the war has started.”
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