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Ukraine's parliament (the Verkhovna Rada) has registered a draft resolution that proposes setting up an interim parliamentary commission to investigate the murders of civilians in Odesa, Mariupol, Krasnoarmiisk and other cities in the country's southeast.

Its authors are Party of Regions MP Vadym Novynsky and Batkivschyna faction deputy chairman Andriy Ivanchuk.

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