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Sep 2023
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Deadly explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh; to...

The Economist
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More than 20 people were killed and almost 300 injured in a blast at a fuel-storage facility in Nagorno-Karabakh. Also, Ukrainian officials claimed that the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet was one of 34 officers killed in a missile strike on the fleet’s headquarters in Crimea last Friday.

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