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Day of mourning in Zaporizhia, in tribute to the victims of the March 2 bombing
The acting mayor of Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, declared Monday a day of mourning, after 13 people were killed in the shelling that hit a residential building on March 2. Still five people remain missing as search and rescue operations have been completed.
Bakhmout, a “painful and difficult battle”, says the Ukrainian president
As Bakhmout has become the epicenter of an all-out war, “I would like to pay special tribute to the bravery, strength and resilience of the soldiers fighting in Donbass”, this region in the east of the country, Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily message on Sunday.
He stressed how this battle, which for months has inflicted very heavy losses on both sides, in artillery duels and muddy trenches, was “painful and difficult”.