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A city in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian militants descended into a deeper spiral of murky violence on April 21 after two bodies were reportedly pulled from a river. The report came a day after at least three people died in a shootout at a checkpoint, and an international observer mission with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was unable to enter the city for reasons that were not clear. Russia agreed to the observer mission at Germany’s insistence, and the group’s inability to reach the area made it all the more difficult to determine why law and order was unraveling in the area.

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