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Evacuees from Ukrainian city tell stories of survival amid Russians
Stuff (New Zealand) and The Columbian (Vancouver WA) describe the same event in different terms.
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What happenedEvacuees from Ukrainian city tell stories of survival amid Russians.
The headline splitThe left frames it as "Held at gunpoint ‘for moonshine’: Ukrainian evacuees tell of life under the Russians". The center frames it as "Evacuees from Ukrainian city tell stories of survival amid Russians".
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Left / center-leftHeld at gunpoint ‘for moonshine’: Ukrainian evacuees tell of life under the Russians
Stuff (New Zealand) · Center-left · News report
CenterEvacuees from Ukrainian city tell stories of survival amid Russians
The Columbian (Vancouver WA) · Center · News report
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Evacuees from Ukrainian city tell stories of survival amid Russians
A rasping scream rang out as a teenager recognized her father. He was one of the hundreds of people who had escaped: years of Russian occupation, months of hunger under a deadly drone war,...
