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The Russian Army has launched an attack on the Ivano-Frankivsk airport at dawn this Sunday, says the mayor of this town in western Ukraine, 153 kilometers from Romania, Ruslan Martsinkiv.
Kremlin troops have also attacked a military base located in the Lviv region and about 25 kilometers from the border with Poland with eight missiles, causing at least nine deaths and 57 injuries, according to a spokesman for the Armed Forces.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has indicated in a tweet that there were “foreign instructors” at the base.
The Russian offensive, which began on February 24 and has already caused the flight of 2.6 million refugees, continues throughout the country.
This morning, several explosions were also heard in Kherson, The Kyiv Independent
has reported.
and have confirmed various media.
In the early hours of the morning, anti-aircraft sirens have gone off in the main cities of Ukraine, including the capital, Kiev.
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, has asked that the attacks stop in order to reach the population and has reported that 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the beginning of the invasion.
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Russia fires eight missiles at a Ukrainian base 25 kilometers from Poland
The Russian Army launched eight missiles at dawn on Sunday at a Ukrainian military base located in the Lviv region (Lviv), just about 25 kilometers from the border with Poland, a member country of both the European Union and the United States. NATO, as confirmed by military authorities in the region.
It is the Center for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, a military training facility that has received visits from different delegations of the Atlantic Alliance located in the town of Yavoriv.
With this bombing, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, not only redoubles his threat to Ukraine, but also hardens his hand against the European Union and NATO a day after the EU expressed its intention to send the country all the weapons that are necessary, report from Ukraine
Maria Sahuquillo
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Luis de Vega
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In the photo of Luis de Vega, a column of black smoke in the area attacked by Russia this Sunday next to the border with Poland.
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Have the peace dividends run out?
The brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine should be a wake-up call for Western politicians, business leaders and economists who promote an equitable and environmental future, but lack the practical or strategic sense to achieve it.
Whatever short-term tactics Europe and the United States use to respond to the current crisis, their long-term strategy will have to put energy security on a par with environmental sustainability and funding military deterrence on the same level as social priorities.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 largely because Russian leaders, primarily President Boris Yeltsin and his economic advisers, recognized that the Soviet communist military-industrial complex could not keep pace with the economic might and superior technological prowess of the West.
Today, considering that the size of the Russian economy is less than one-twentieth the size of the combined US and EU economies, that same strategy of vastly outpacing Russia's defense spending should be much easier to pull off.
Unfortunately, many Western societies are hesitant, especially on the left, to admit that defense spending is sometimes a necessity rather than a luxury.
For many decades, Western standards of living were buoyed by gigantic "peace dividends."
For example, US defense spending fell from 11.1% of GDP in 1967, during the Vietnam War, to 6.9% of GDP in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, to just under above 3.5% of GDP today.
If the share of GDP devoted to US defense was still at Vietnam-era levels, the corresponding expenditures in 2021 would have been $1.5 trillion more, above what the government spent on social security. last year and almost triple government spending on non-defense consumption and investment.
Even if defense spending in the late 1980s had been $600 billion higher than today,
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Kenneth Rogoff
Illustration: Tomas Ondarra
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Russia bombs Ivano-Frankivsk airport, near the border with Romania
Russian troops have attacked the Ivano-Frankivsk airport this Sunday morning, a town of 230,000 inhabitants in western Ukraine, located 153 kilometers from the border with Romania, as confirmed by the mayor, Ruslan Martsinkiv.
The first reports, details the Reuters agency, do not reveal if there were victims.
On Friday, the Kremlin forces already attacked this city, approaching the territory of the European Union and NATO.
In the early hours of this Sunday, Russian troops have also launched eight missiles on a military base located in the Lviv region, about 25 kilometers from the border with Poland, as confirmed by the military authorities of the region through the Telegram social network.
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What has happened in the last hours after the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine
On the 18th day of the war initiated by Russia against Ukraine, these are the key data at 8:00 a.m. this Sunday, March 13:
Russia bombs a Ukrainian military facility located 25 kilometers from Poland.
The Russian Army launched eight missiles on Ukrainian military installations located in the Lviv region and only about 25 kilometers from the border with Poland at dawn on Sunday.
With this bombing, Russian President Vladimir Putin not only redoubles his threat to Ukraine but also hardens his hand on the European Union and NATO.
This attack is added to the one that Putin's troops carried out on Friday at the Lutsk air base, about 80 kilometers from the Polish border, killing four soldiers and leaving six injured.
The bombardment comes after the Krenlim threatened to attack EU arms shipments to Ukraine.
Lviv, close to the Polish border, has attracted thousands of internally displaced people and has so far not been as badly affected by the Russian offensive.
Sirens in several Ukrainian cities and explosions in Kherson and Ivano-Frankivsk.
Sunday morning has started with explosions that have been heard in Ivano-Frankivsk and Kherson, according to various media reports.
A couple of hours earlier, air-raid sirens have gone off in almost every major city in Ukraine, including Kiev.
The West accelerates the shipment of weapons to Ukraine despite warnings from Moscow.
All possible weaponry for Ukraine and sanctions "without taboos" against Russia.
Faced with the warlike escalation of the Russian president and his refusal to put an end to the invasion, the European Union (EU) and the United States toughen their message and measures.
Only 13,000 Ukrainians evacuated on the last day.
The Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, has reported that this Saturday only about 13,000 have been evacuated from various cities in the country thanks to the humanitarian corridors.
This figure is almost double that of the previous day, but much lower than that of the previous days, when between 30,000 and 40,000 people were evacuated.
Vereshchuk has said no one has managed to leave the besieged city of Mariupol and has accused Russian troops of obstruction.
For its part, Moscow has accused the Ukrainian forces of holding citizens in the city.
A convoy with 90 tons of food and medicine is on its way to besieged Mariupol.
The Donetsk regional government has stated that a 60-vehicle convoy carrying 90 tons of food and medicine is moving towards Mariupol, the hard-hit port city in southern Ukraine.
The convoy "traveled most of the agreed route," Governor Pavlo Kirilenko said on Telegram.
They are also part of the "fifty empty buses" column to evacuate civilians.
"The start of the evacuation will be announced later," the official said.
The United Kingdom will host a summit with Nordic countries in the face of the Russian threat.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host a summit with the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia's neighbours, in London on Tuesday.
"European security has been shaken by the attack on Ukraine and, together with our partners, we will take steps to ensure that we emerge stronger and more united than ever before," Johnson said in a statement.
The prime minister has also highlighted the importance of energy and economic independence from Russia.
In addition, the United Kingdom will pay 456 dollars a month to citizens who take in Ukrainian refugees.
PHOTO: A Ukrainian military man walks through a devastated street in Mariupol, this Saturday.
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The great European dilemma for raw materials
It is alarming to contemplate the graphs of the evolution of the prices of raw materials (from oil and gas to polysilicon through coal, electricity, a multitude of metals and agricultural products).
The points that mark, which in the case of fuels have been happening since last July (that is, since the pre-war situation that had led to restrictions on the sale of gas and the increase in the price of electricity), are increasingly highest since the invasion of Ukraine.
A situation driven by the increase in volatility in the markets after the announcement of sanctions that the West announced against Russia, notable in the case of industrial metals, due to the threat of interruptions in the flow of raw materials at a time when inventories are low
Uncertainty fuels volatility, intensified by the rebound in coal and oil prices, which have reached heights not seen since 2008, and after the Biden Administration banned US imports of Russian crude, a decision seconded by the United Kingdom. , making us forget the collapse it suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The war is assuming the reshaping of the global perspective of energy prices, with gas at the epicenter and its consequences (sanctions, high energy prices and the interruption of many production facilities) have caused an increase in prices of most industrial metals.
In the case of steel, there is concern that the increase in the cost of energy will cause new paralysis of industrial centers, as the sectoral employers Unesid and Aege (of large consumers) have already warned in Spain.
Aluminium, in which Russian production accounts for 6% of the world, has also reached record highs and European industry may be affected by rising energy costs.
Palladium, key to making automobile catalysts, precision elements and batteries, has followed the same path, given that its main world producer is Russia with a share of around 40%.
For its part, zinc and nickel, in which it is also a power, exceeded the prices of the last 11 years due to higher transport costs and delays in shipments, and polysilicon,
fundamental in the solar panel industry, has experienced an escalation since last year to maximum levels.
Not to mention potassium, essential for fertilizers.
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Miguel Angel Noceda
Photo: The Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
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A plume of black smoke above the attacked base near the border with Poland
The special envoy of EL PAÍS
Luis de Vega
is heading right now to the Ukrainian military installations bombed this Sunday by Russia in Lviv (Lviv), just 25 kilometers from Poland, the border of the European Union and NATO.
"We are now behind a fire truck. In the opposite direction we have come across half a dozen ambulances," explains Luis de Vega.
Russian troops have launched eight missiles on military installations in the Lviv region at dawn on Sunday, as confirmed by the military authorities of the region through Telegram.
With this bombing, Russian President Vladimir Putin not only redoubles his threat to Ukraine but also hardens his hand on the European Union and NATO.
PHOTO: Column of black smoke in the area attacked by Russia this Sunday next to the border with Poland.
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Economic situation |
The ECB disarms
The ECB's decision to accelerate the withdrawal of monetary stimuli complicates the management of the energy crisis exacerbated by the invasion of Ukraine.
The announcement of an increase in interest rates is understandable, even necessary, in a context of runaway inflation.
However, with the suppression of purchases of public and private debt by the central bank (the other great tool of monetary policy, along with interest rates), the economy will lose one of its main supports at a particularly difficult time.
The ECB experts acknowledge that the energy crisis will take its toll, and cut the growth forecast for the eurozone.
Any forecast is risky, due to the extraordinary uncertainties about the path of energy prices, the geopolitical evolution and the very duration of the conflict in Ukraine.
But the magnitude of the adjustment seems small: the economy would still advance by 3.7%, only half a point less than anticipated before the outbreak of the war.
Undoubtedly, the lightness of the revision is explained by the hypotheses that support the forecast: the ECB forecasts a barrel of Brent at less than 93 dollars, when currently it is already trading around 110. Therefore, the alternative scenario, characterized as adverse by the ECB, with growth of 2.7%, seems more plausible.
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Raymond Torres
Photo: ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, last January.
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Bombing trade to stop the war in Ukraine
For just over two weeks, with the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, many of us wonder why it could not be avoided.
The first war in Europe in the 21st century is definitely different from the wars of the past, due to the vast interconnections that link our economies both digitally and through international trade in goods and services and global value chains.
However, despite the fact that trade has promoted peace and prosperity throughout history, this does not always work.
This is what happens when there is no democracy, the leaders are irrational, as in Russia, and the desire for power blinds them to the disastrous consequences of war.
What economic theory tells us in this regard is that the process of globalization has changed the nature of conflicts.
Philippe Martin, Professor of Economics at Science Po, and his two co-authors reached this conclusion in 2008.
In their work they analyzed the aforementioned interconnections between trade and conflicts, pointing out that wars can occur due to the existence of asymmetric information;
that is, when one of the potential opponents has more or better information than the other.
In this case, the probability of conflict is greater between countries that trade little bilaterally, since the opportunity cost associated with trade losses is low.
However, when evaluating the probability of conflict, not only bilateral trade between those involved in the dispute comes into play,
but also the commercial opening of each country to the rest of the world.
In fact, greater openness, measured in terms of trade as a percentage of GDP, reduces mutual dependency and thus the cost of a bilateral conflict.
Thus, the authors conclude that trade liberalization can increase the probability of bilateral conflicts with neighboring countries.
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Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
Illustration: Slim Wonders
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Russia crosses the red lines of the atrocity in Ukraine
The explosion of the bomb that Russia dropped on Wednesday at the Mariupol mother and child hospital in southeastern Ukraine engulfed everything around it.
Trees were reduced to splinters, part of the facade and the roof of one of the buildings volatilized.
The heat melted the chassis of the cars - still on fire in the video that shows the ravages of the attack - and the shock wave tore doors and windows by the roots.
In that jumble of bloody mattresses, furniture and rubble to which the interior of the hospital was reduced, the misfortune caused the death of only three fatalities, including a six-year-old girl.
Another 17 people were badly injured.
The trajectory of the bomb, which did not hit a building but fell into the tree-lined atrium of the complex, prevented an even worse tragedy.
El presidente ucranio, Volodímir Zelenski, definió este ataque como una “atrocidad”, un sinónimo casi perfecto de la palabra guerra. Pero ni siquiera en los conflictos armados “todo vale”, recuerda la profesora de la Universidad de Málaga experta en Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Elena del Mar García Rico. Porque la rama del Derecho que “pone límites a la barbarie” de las guerras, subraya esta especialista, veta “siempre” los ataques contra civiles. Si se trata de un bombardeo a un hospital, como en Mariupol, el crimen de guerra es casi flagrante. Las normas que constituyen el corazón del Derecho Internacional Humanitario —los Convenios de Ginebra de 1949 y sus Protocolos adicionales de 1997— conceden una protección reforzada a los hospitales, que no podrán ser atacados “en ninguna circunstancia”. Entre las personas “bajo especial protección” figuran también “las parturientas” como las que el miércoles salieron maltrechas del hospital de Mariupol en camilla y con la ropa manchada de sangre. Informa Trinidad Deiros.
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FOTO: Equipos de rescate sacan a una embarazada del hospital materno-infantil de Mariupol, el miércoles. / Evgeniy Maloletka (AP)
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El Ejército ruso bombardea unas instalaciones militares de Ucrania situadas a 25 kilómetros de Polonia
El Ejército ruso ha lanzado en la madrugada del domingo ocho misiles sobre unas instalaciones militares de Ucrania situadas en la región de Lviv (Leópolis) y a tan solo unos 25 kilómetros de la frontera con Polonia, según han confirmado las autoridades militares de la región a través de Telegram. Con este bombardeo, el presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, no solo redobla su amenaza a Ucrania sino que endurece su pulso a la Unión Europea y la OTAN. Este ataque se suma al que tropas del Kremlin llevaron a cabo el viernes en la base aérea de Lutsk, a unos 80 kilómetros de la frontera polaca, causando la muerte a cuatro soldados y dejando heridos a seis. Fueron las primeras víctimas mortales de la guerra en un punto tan cercano a la Unión Europea y el territorio de la OTAN, informa Luis de Vega desde Lviv.
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La guerra de Putin alumbra un nuevo telón de acero
La guerra de Vladímir Putin ha alumbrado un nuevo telón de acero. La invasión de Ucrania ha provocado una reacción que, en pocos días, ha hecho hibernar todas las conexiones construidas entre Occidente y Rusia en las tres décadas transcurridas desde la caída del muro de Berlín y la disolución de la URSS. La desoccidentalización de Rusia avanza a velocidad impresionante en múltiples frentes, revirtiendo un proceso que había marcado a fondo la vida cotidiana de la sociedad rusa. Mientras lo hace, ese mensaje se propaga a escala global y muchos países incómodos con la dependencia de los mercados financieros y las tecnologías occidentales reconsideran sus cálculos estratégicos acerca de si conviene buscar una desconexión (y cómo hacerlo).
Las sanciones adoptadas contra Rusia por la agresión a Ucrania suponen una brutal desvinculación del sistema financiero ruso; restringen el comercio en un amplio abanico de productos; impiden vuelos directos. En paralelo, asistimos a una estampida de empresas occidentales que operaban en el mercado ruso. Los ciudadanos rusos, hoy, no pueden ir a una tienda de Apple a comprarse un iPhone, ni comerse una hamburguesa de McDonald’s o tomarse un café en Starbucks. Tampoco pueden ver Netflix, que ha suspendido su servicio, o acceder a los contenidos globales de Tiktok, que lo ha restringido permitiendo solo un funcionamiento autóctono. Facebook e Instagram han sido bloqueados por el Gobierno ruso, Twitter ha visto limitada su capacidad operativa. Por Andrea Rizzi.
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FOTO: Una tienda de H&M cerrada en Moscú como consecuencia de la invasión rusa en Ucrania. / M. Shipenkov (EFE)
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Sirenas de alerta en Lviv, junto a la frontera con Polonia
Los habitantes de Lviv (Leópolis en español), una ciudad a tan solo 70 kilómetros de la frontera con Polonia y la Unión Europea, se han despertado con sirenas de alerta, tal y como nos cuenta desde allí el enviado especial de EL PAÍS Luis de Vega, que además manda este vídeo.
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Múltiples explosiones en Lviv, Jersón e Ivano-Frankivsk
Varias explosiones se han escuchado en Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk y Jersón, ha informado el medio digital The Kyiv Independent en la madrugada del domingo y han confirmado luego The Guardian, The New York Times y BBC. Un par de horas antes, las sirenas antiaéreas han saltado en casi todas las principales ciudades de Ucrania, incluida Kiev. Lviv, cerca de la frontera polaca, ha atraído a miles de desplazados internos y hasta ahora no había sido tan afectada por la ofensiva rusa. Jersón, en el sur, fue tomada por las tropas de Moscú la semana pasada, la primera ciudad de importancia en caer ante el ejército invasor.
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El Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica expresa a Rusia su "inquietud" sobre las centrales ucranias
El Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) le ha transmitido a Rusia su "viva inquietud" sobre la seguridad de las centrales ucranias bajo control del ejército invasor. En una conversación telefónica con el director general de Rosatom, la agencia nuclear rusa, el jefe de la OIEA, Rafael Grossi, le ha dicho que se ha violado uno de los "pilares indispensables" de la seguridad nuclear, el que los empleados puedan tomar decisiones sin presión, según ha publicado este sábado la agencia en Twitter.
El dirigente de Rosatom ha afirmado, por su parte, que el personal ucranio sigue operando las centrales de Zaporiyia y Chernóbil y que los expertos rusos proporcionan una “asistencia consultiva”. Además, el directivo ha rechazado que Rosatom vaya a tomar el control de forma total y permanente de Zaporiyia, la mayor planta nuclear de Europa, como había señalado previamente el Gobierno ucranio.
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Al escritor Emmanuel Carrère la guerra le pilló en Moscú. Y allí ya nada será igual
Se anunciaban manifestaciones masivas el domingo, a las dos de la tarde, en el corazón de las grandes ciudades rusas. “Los ucranios son héroes”, me decía Irina, “nosotros, los rusos, vivimos con miedo”. No es verdad, no todos, quiero acordarme de las chicas que salen totalmente solas a la calle fría con una pancarta. Pero mi impresión cuando asistí a la manifestación es que aquella gente había venido a oponerse a la guerra por principios, por honor, para vencer el miedo, y es algo hermoso, pero que prácticamente todos, y me entran ganas de llorar al terminar así este artículo, saben que la causa está perdida. Por Emmanuel Carrère
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El secretario general de la OTAN advierte de que Rusia “podría” usar armas químicas
Jens Stoltenberg, secretario general de la OTAN, cree que Rusia “podría” usar armas químicas en Ucrania y afirma que eso constituiríaun crimen de guerra, según una entrevista publicada este domingo por el periódico alemán Welt am Sonntag. “En días recientes, hemos escuchado aseveraciones absurdas sobre armas químicas y biológicas”, ha dicho Stoltenberg, en referencia a las acusaciones vertidas por Rusia sobre supuestos laboratorios biológicos de EE UU en Ucrania. “Tenemos que mantenernos alerta porque es posible que Rusia pudiera planear operaciones con armas químicas bajo la fabricación de mentiras. Eso sería un crimen de guerra”. Además, Soltenberg ha avisado de que los próximos días de conflicto “serán probablemente de mayor sufrimiento”. (Reuters)
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Incendios y daños extensos en edificios residenciales de Mariupol
Imágenes satelitales tomadas este sábado muestran un daño extenso en infraestructura civil y residencial en la ciudad de Mariupol, en el sur de Ucrania, según la empresa Maxar Technologies. La compañía ha dicho que en las imágenes se pueden apreciar incendios en la parte oeste de la ciudad portuaria y que docenas de altos bloques de apartamentos han sido severamente dañados. Al menos 1.582 civiles han muerto en Mariupol por los ataques rusos, dijo el Ayuntamiento el viernes.
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Las sirenas antiaéreas resuenan en casi toda Ucrania
Las alertas por posibles ataques aéreos han saltado en varias de las principales ciudades de Ucrania en la madrugada del sábado, según el medio digital The Kyiv Independent. Los avisos han sonado en Kiev, la capital, pero también en Járkov, Dnipro y Sumi, al este, en Odesa, al sur, y en Lviv, al oeste. “¡Todos al refugio inmediatamente!”, ha pedido a los ciudadanos el Ayuntamiento de Kiev en su canal de Telegram.
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Un bombardeo ruso daña un monasterio ortodoxo y deja varios heridos
Un ataque aéreo ruso en la noche del sábado ha dañado un importante monasterio ortodoxo en la región de Donetsk, al este de Ucrania, según el medio digital Pravda, que cita un comunicado de la iglesia. El estallido de una bomba sobre un puente cercano al complejo religioso de Sviatohirsk Lavra ha dañado las instalaciones, donde pasaban la noche los monjes y un grupo de 520 desplazados por el conflicto, incluyendo 200 niños. Los marcos de las ventanas han salido volando. Pravda ha señalado que no hay muertos pero que varios heridos han sido trasladados al hospital de Sviatohirsk.
The monastery, attached to the Ukrainian and not the Russian Orthodox Church, is an important religious center.
The first written mention of the place dates back to the 17th century.
It was closed after the Bolshevik revolution and restored with the fall of the Soviet Union.
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