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Ukrainian MP and Information Resistance online news outlet spokesman Dmytro Tymchuk has reported that over the past 24 hours Russian-backed militants have scaled back their offensive in the Debaltseve region of the east Ukraine conflict zone after failing to complete the encirclement of Ukrainian forces defending the town of Debaltseve. 

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