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“Those come from the military training exercises,” a tour guide tells visitors from Germany and Canada wondering about the bullet holes inside a cafe in Pripyat. That’s true for bullet holes in buildings across the entire abandoned city. They are due to military target practice, not adventurers hunting for mutants and zombies, as the tourists might think.

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