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Photos and videos are emerging in social networks showing the ongoing efforts to evacuate children from Armyansk, a town in the northern part of the Russian-occupied Crimea, located close to the Crimean Titan plant where an alleged hazardous chemical leak caused environmental damage.

At the same time, occupation authorities have not yet declared the state of emergency in the area. The adult population is not being evacuated.

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