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Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov said on June 13 that federal forces had inflicted "high casualties" on separatist rebels led by a Chechen commander in the southeastern port of Mariupol. Avakov said the "active phase" of the offensive began at dawn and was still raging three hours later.

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