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on the BBC World Service where we are asking how Russia is transforming occupied Eastern Ukraine.
The status of the self proclaimed Donetsk
and Luhansk people's republics is far less clear cut than it seems.
An independent reporting from there extremely difficult.
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As feverish diplomacy continues to try and end the war in Ukraine, a reminder the conflict goes on.
As he headed back to the country after a tumultuous few days of meetings in the US
and the UK President Zelensky said
that Russia had launched more than 1000 attack drones,
almost 1300 bombs and more than 20 missiles into his country over the last week.
President Zelensky said the world needed to be more united
and stronger to make Russia stop the strikes.
You're gambling with World War III and.
What you're doing is very disrespectful to the country.
There are major cracks in that unity.