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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has cut short a working visit to Germany to oversee an emergency situation that has developed around the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiyivka.

Officials said on Jan. 30 that there was heavy shelling from Russia-supported militants in Avdiyivka, near the city of Donetsk overnight.

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