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War in Ukraine: Civilians try to flee shelling and besieged cities

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A senior Ukrainian official says 5,000 people, including 1,700 foreign students were evacuated from Sumy on Tuesday. (March8). But efforts to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol failed on Tuesday. Ukraine's government accused Russia of shelling a humanitarian corridor it had promised in Mariupol.

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