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Zelensky warns that ceding key Donbas cities could expose Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to a Russian advance
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that handing Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka over to Russia could enable further Russian advances toward Pavlohrad and Dnipro. He said Russia demands that Ukraine withdraw from eastern territories while Ukrainian forces still hold a heavily fortified part of Donetsk Oblast.