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IMAGE: Zaporizhzhia residents queue at the local administration office to receive iodine tablets in the city's eastern Khortytskyi district as fears of a nuclear accident at Europe's largest nuclear power plant remain high. Photograph: Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters
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IMAGE: Residents sit on a bench next to cars destroyed by recent shelling in the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: A house destroyed by a Russian strike in the city of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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IMAGE: People line up to receive humanitarian help organised by the municipality in Kostyantynivka. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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IMAGE: A boy looks up as he receives drinking water in Kostyantynivka. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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IMAGE: Locals stand in front of their homes destroyed by a Russian strike in Mykolaiv. Photograph: Umit Bektas/Reuters
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IMAGE: Police and military officers inspect houses destroyed by a Russian strike. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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IMAGE: Ukrainian homes destroyed by a Russian military strike. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com