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Frontline residents evacuated to Russian-controlled port before expected counter-offensive

Evacuees and relocatees, who left their permanent places of residence in the Zaporizhzhia region in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, sit next to a replica of Red Army's Banner of Victory raised on the Reichstag building in Berlin during World War Two, as they wait to complete documents and get registered by local social service specialists, at a temporary accommodation centre in the Azov Sea port of Berdyansk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, May 10, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

At a temporary accommodation centre in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk children evacuated from towns and villages near the frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces play outside on bikes as if nothing was amiss.

The minors, accompanied by at least one parent or guardian, were evacuated this month by Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region - which houses Europe's largest nuclear power plant - ahead of a long-expected Ukrainian counter-offensive.

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