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A girl rides with her mother in a van during evacuation by Ukrainian police, in Avdiivka, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. For months, authorities have been urging civilians in areas near the fighting in eastern Ukraine to evacuate to safer parts of the country. But while many have heeded the call, others -– including families with children -– have steadfastly refused. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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At Ukraine's front, police try to evacuate holdout families
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Tue,03/21/23-2:20AM , 519 Reads
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Pale and grimy from living in a dank, dark basement for nearly a year, the teenager and his weeping mother emerged to the sound of pounding artillery and headed to a waiting armored police van that would whisk them to safety.
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Relatives gather next to the body of 29 year old Yana Rikhlitska, a Ukrainian army medic killed in the Bakhmut area, during the funeral in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Just over a week ago, Yana Rikhlitska was filmed by The Associated Press as she helped treat wounded soldiers in a field hospital of Bakhmut area which has been pulverized as Russia presses a three-sided assault to seize it. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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'Oh my daughter': Volunteer medic, 29, buried in Ukraine
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Tue,03/07/23-11:19AM , 481 Reads
VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — As the mother’s cries of anguish pierced the cold morning air, mourners who had fought back tears could hold them no longer.

“Oh Yana, oh my daughter,” Olena Rikhlitska howled. “My baby, my little one.”
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Anna Levchenko, 81, kisses the picture of her grandson Andrii Matviichuk, during a gathering to mark the first anniversary of the death of eight men killed by Russian forces in Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, March 4, 2023. The eight had set up a roadblock on a road in the town in an attempt to prevent Russian troops from advancing, as they swept towards the Ukrainian capital at the start of their invasion. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Ukraine: Mourners commemorate 8 men killed in Bucha
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Sat,03/04/23-10:39AM , 449 Reads
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Clutching flowers and wiping away tears, relatives, neighbors and friends of eight men executed by Russian forces during the occupation of the Ukrainian town of Bucha gathered Saturday to mark the first annive
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Men carry bags containing three freshly exhumed bodies in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, Ukraine, Thursday, March 2, 2023. Nearly a year after towns and villages near Kyiv were retaken from Russian troops who had seized territory as they raced toward Kyiv at the start of their invasion of Ukraine, authorities are still exhuming the bodies of civilians hastily buried in makeshift graves. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A year into Ukraine war, bodies dug up in once occupied town
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Fri,03/03/23-2:55AM , 508 Reads
BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — The freshly exhumed remains of three men lie in black body bags on the edge of the small cemetery in a town not far from Ukraine's capital, waiting to be taken to a morgue.
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