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Russia Offers Ukrainian Refugees Chance for 'New Life'
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"The bus for Irkutsk leaves in an hour", the loudspeaker blares. Messages broadcast over the tent camp remind refugees from Ukraine's civil war that their "new life" awaits them here in Russia.
Just a few kilometers inside the border, with artillery fire popping in the far distance, those who have fled the fighting lean against a dusty Lada car and watch a bus pull in to carry other refugees away.
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