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‘WE WILL FIGHT THE RUSSIANS BACK’

A uthorities in Lviv, 80km from the border with Poland and a haven for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Ukrainians, last week ordered dozens of statues to be wrapped in padding to protect them from Russian attacks.

Despite being untouched by the bombings at that stage, the 700,000 inhabitants of this magnificent Unesco world heritage site knew their time would come.

So when the cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, about 130km away, were targeted by Russian forces last Friday in

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