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Residents in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have been told to spend the whole day in bomb shelters in the face of unrelenting shelling as the battle for Donbas gathers pace.

One woman was inconsolable as the body of her father was removed from the scene of an attack which targeted a playground in a residential area.

Kharkiv authorities said a man and a woman died as a result of the strike just before noon.

The attack followed several which took place over Saturday and Sunday.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, said 18 people had been killed and 106 injured by the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv that in the past four days.

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