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epa09886146 A picture taken during a visit to Mariupol organized by the Russian military shows local people line up as militias of self-proclaimed DPR distribute humanitarian aid to local people in Mariupol, Ukraine, 12 April 2022. Some 133,214 people, including two thousand people over the past day, left Mariupol through the gum corridor in the eastern direction, according to the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center. The main battles in the central part of Mariupol are over, said the representative of the people's militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country, a huge flow of refugees, and multiple sanctions against Russia. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY