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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - A pro-Russian fighter, right, stands next to bodies of crew members of a destroyed Ukrainian tank in the northern outskirts of city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, July 22, 2014. Amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, tensions have also soared in the countryâÄ™s east, where Ukrainian forces are locked in a nearly eight-year conflict with Russia-backed separatists. A sharp increase in skirmishes on Thursday Feb. 17, 2022 raised fears that Moscow could use the situation as a pretext for an incursion. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)