Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Dec 16, 2024 (AFP) - The last days of a Ukrainian ghost town within Russia's grasp

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2024-12-16

The pack of stray dogs -- thin and rain-soaked -- yelped in fear at the roar of incoming Russian artillery fire that echoed off abandoned Soviet-era buildings and an Orthodox church in frontline Pokrovsk. They bustled into a bare grocery store in the eastern Ukrainian town, where the once distant and dull thuds of fighting have grown deafening and deadly as Russian forces have advanced to its gates over recent months. But the gaggle of elderly by......

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