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Most important news at a glance:

– The strategically important city Severodonetsk is now completely in Russian handsn. The mayor has said so. This means that Russia controls almost the entire Luhansk region.

– The Berlin mayor thought to speak to her colleague in Kiev yesterday, but that turned out to be a deepfake person to go. The police are investigating the incident.

– It Russian army has Saturday the evacuation ceased of civilians hiding in a chemical plant in the Ukrainian city Severodonetsk† According to the Russian news agency TASS, Ukrainian artillery shelling prevented the safe retreat of the civilians.

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