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Ukrainian prosecutors are questioning a 20-year-old mother after she allegedly left two toddlers in her flat for nine days, and one starved to death. A top Kyiv official reported the case.

The mother, Vladislava Podchapko, had gone to her partner’s flat, without leaving food at home, reports say.

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