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The separatist authorities stated Monday that a minimum of four civilians were eliminated by Ukrainian shelling over the previous 24 hours, and a number of others were injured. Ukraine's armed force stated 2 Ukrainian soldiers were killed over the weekend, and another serviceman was wounded Monday. Ukrainian military spokesperson Pavlo Kovalchyuk firmly insisted that Ukrainian forces weren't returning fire.

"We are on the edge of nervous breakdowns," she stated, her voice trembling. "And there is nowhere to run." In another stressing indication, the Russian armed force stated it killed five presumed "saboteurs" who crossed from Ukraine into Russia's Rostov region and likewise destroyed 2 armored vehicles and took a Ukrainian serviceman detainee.

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administration sent a letter to the United Nations human rights chief declaring that Moscow has assembled a list of Ukrainians to be eliminated or sent out to detention camps after the invasion. The letter, initially reported by the New York Times, was gotten by the AP. Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov stated the claim was a lie and no such list exists.

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Lori Hinnant in Kyiv; Angela Charlton in Paris; Zeke Miller and Aamer Madhani in Munich, Germany; Geir Moulson in Berlin; and Eric Tucker, Ellen Knickmeyer, Robert Burns, Matthew Lee and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.

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, (born January 25, 1978, Kryvyy Rih, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now in Ukraine], Ukrainian actor and comedian who was chosen president of Ukraine in 2019. Although he was a political amateur, Zelensky's anticorruption platform won him prevalent assistance, and his substantial online following translated into a solid electoral base. He won a landslide victory over incumbent Petro Poroshenko in the second round of the 2019 presidential election.

When he was a kid, his family moved to Erdenet, Mongolia, for four years before returning to Kryvyy Rih, where Zelensky got in school. Like lots of people from Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk area, he grew up as a native Russian speaker, but he likewise obtained fluency in both Ukrainian and English. In 1995 he went into Kryvyy Rih Economic Institute, the local campus of the Kiev National Economic University, and in 2000 he finished with a law degree.