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Civilians flee intense fighting in contested eastern Ukraine

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Volunteer drivers are risking everything to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukrainian civilians and get people out.
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People board an evacuation train in Pokrovsk railway station, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.
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People walk towards an evacuation train in Pokrovsk railway station, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.
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An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area look out the window of an evacuation train in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.
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An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area sit in an evacuation train in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 10.
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An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area cries moments before departing by train to western Ukraine from the Pokrovsk railway station, Friday, June 10.
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YURI KOCHETKOV/POOL PHOTO VIA AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, June 10. The Turkmen president is on official visit in Moscow.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a joint press conference with President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, June 10. The Turkmen president is on official visit in Moscow.
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A Ukrainian soldier holds radios during heavy fighting on the front line in Severodonetsk, the Luhansk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 8.
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A scoreboard counts the number of injured people assisted and carried by a military ambulance personnel in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7.
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An injured Ukrainian servicemen is transferred to a medical facility after getting an emergency medical treatment in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7.
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Rapper Viacheslav Drofa, known as Otoy, center, trains with other militia men at a shot range outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7. From the battlefronts of Ukraine comes rap music — filled with the anger and indignation of a young generation that, once the fighting is done, will certainly never forget and may never forgive.Ukrainian rapper-turned-volunteer soldier Otoy is putting the war into words and thumping baselines, tapping out lyrics under Russian shelling on his phone, with the light turned low to avoid becoming a target. It helps numb the nerve-shredding stress of combat.
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A man looks at buildings destroyed during Russian attacks on Borodyanka on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4.

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