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Police urge civilians to leave Slovyansk and Kramatorsk as Russian strikes intensify
Donetsk police say forced evacuations of families with children have begun in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, the largest cities still fully under Ukrainian control in Donbas. Officials report near-daily glide bomb strikes and rising civilian casualties. Russia already controls almost all of Luhansk and about 80% of Donetsk region, according to BBC Monitoring.