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DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine - Well-wishers mill around the entrances of the two main hospitals in this city in east-central Ukraine - men who greet friends with hugs and backslaps or share a cigarette, women who arrive to visit the wounded, sorting food parcels and pouring cups of sweet tea. 

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