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Firefighters work at a site of a Russian missile strike in the town of Vilniansk in the Zaporizhzhia region. Photo: Reuters

Vasilisa Stepanenko and Eveniy Maloletka

Drone footage from Ukraine’s military released yesterday has shown what appears to be bodies in a civilian area in the embattled town of Toretsk in the east of the country.

The town in the war-torn Donetsk region has come under heavy Russian bombardment in recent days, prompting a scaled-up evacuation effort by Ukrainian rescue services.