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Bennett Murray in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine & Rachel Hagan

Inside 'red zone' underground shelters where Ukrainians await fate as Russians advance

Ukrainian civilians are hiding in “red zone” underground shelters awaiting their fate as Russians advance.

Russians are just one mile away from the city of Avdiivka, which they have encircled on three sides, with shelling rounds landing no more than a few hundred feet away from a bomb shelter.

As Kremlin troops attempted to break through a frontline, the basement walls of a school-turned-bomb shelter shook furiously from enemy fire but residents refused to leave.

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