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A 20-year-old female marine has been wounded seriously by the Russian-led forces in Donbas.

“Olena… A female marine from our 503rd battalion of the Marine Corps. Defending the peaceful Ukrainian sky, she received wounds during enemy shelling yesterday. She is 20. She is still a child. Fortunately, she will live. Surgery to remove shrapnel was successful,” a soldier of the airborne assault company of the Marine Corps, Mykola Stavytskiy, wrote on Facebook.

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