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Fighting increasingly intense in Ukrainian Donbas region

We report from the region and go on patrol with charity telling residents to evacuate.

Ukrainian soldiers in the crucial Donbas region in the east have told the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ that fighting there is increasingly intense. We report from the region and go on patrol with a charity that is trying to evacuate residents.

We speak to Mark Burns, a man known as President Trump's spiritual adviser. He has just been awarded the Order of Merit by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

President Trump has once again threatened to send National Guard troops into another Democratic stronghold, the city of Baltimore. The Maryland state governor, Wes Moore, had criticised him over his deployment of military personnel in Washington DC and his plans to do the same in Chicago and New York.

Presenters: Rob Young and Victoria Uwonkunda

(Photo: Laarz and VAria make evacuation trips for the charity Universal Action Ukraine in Dobropillia in Donetsk, Ukraine. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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  • Mon 25 Aug 2025 06:06GMT