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"content": "\u003cp>Ostap Korkuna is among the thousands of Ukrainian Americans in the Bay Area who have been ceaselessly monitoring news reports and social media feeds since Wednesday night in California, when Russia began its military assault on the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is definitely an absolutely stressful situation for me and my family. I can just imagine how stressful it is for people back in Ukraine,” said Korkuna, who was born and raised in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, and is now the director of Nova Ukraine, a humanitarian nonprofit based in Palo Alto. “We thought the full-scale invasion would be the worst thing that could absolutely happen. And that’s exactly what happened.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alex Rozovsky, Sunnyvale resident from Ukraine\"]‘I’m really, really distraught. It’s my native country, you know, and the people who are still there, I’m thinking I could have been in their shoes.’[/pullquote]Russia commenced its attack on Ukraine early Thursday morning (local time), unleashing a barrage of airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from multiple directions, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address early Friday local time that 137 people, both service members and civilians, have been killed so far, with hundreds more wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring months of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-joe-biden-business-europe-moscow-e88497e7e8d4ad178057b599cc9ec8f6\">global condemnation and cascading new financial sanctions\u003c/a> from the U.S. and Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday morning declared a “special military operation,” chillingly referring to his country’s nuclear arsenal. Any country that tried to interfere, he warned, would face “consequences you have never seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict marks the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2022/2/23/22948534/russia-ukraine-war-putin-explosions-invasion-explained\">first major European land war\u003c/a> in decades. It comes more than 30 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when Ukraine and other Eastern bloc countries won their independence. Ukraine has since distanced itself from Russia and steadily embraced European institutions — including an ongoing push to join NATO — which Putin considers a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women hold signs above their heads that say 'One united sovereign Ukraine!' and 'Russian Soldier Stay Home.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53924_031_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iuliia Kovbasiuk (left) and Ganna Aleksenko hoist signs in front of San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 24, 2022, during a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since receiving word of the first bomb blasts, Korkuna said he has been frantically attempting to check in with family and friends in Ukraine, noting that those who live further away from the Russian border feel slightly safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That being said, given that the bomb shelling is happening all over the territory of Ukraine, I don’t think anyone can feel safe at this point,” he said. “It’s just hard to imagine what people feel when they hear the bombs firing really close to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Korkuna’s group is \u003ca href=\"https://novaukraine.org/\">raising funds\u003c/a> to send emergency supplies to people on the ground, and organizing remote medical trainings to prepare them for what he called an imminent humanitarian crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be injuries, there will be casualties,” he said. “We need people to be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also organized a rally Thursday evening in front of San Francisco City Hall, planned in partnership with members of the Bay Area’s Russian and Belarusian communities, in a unified stance against Russia’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1497025153686929409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesya Hendrix, a San Francisco resident who grew up in Ukraine, joined hundreds of other demonstrators at the event. She said her grandparents and uncle’s family, who live in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, were woken up Thursday morning to the sounds of explosions and fighter jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have anywhere to go. It’s too late,” she said. “There is no gas. No means of transportation really to go at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendrix said her family’s internet service is still working, so she’s been able to remain in touch with them. “But as soon as they don’t reply for an hour, both me and my mom are just worried. Was there a bomb on their house?” she said. “Are they not answering because they’re busy or they could fall asleep for an hour. Or are they not answering because they’re not alive anymore?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than 1 million people of Ukrainian descent in the U.S., some 20,000 live in the Bay Area — concentrated primarily in San Francisco and the South Bay — according to the Ukrainian consulate in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand together behind a large sign that reads, 'Save Ukraine - Stop Putin.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of demonstrators gather in front of San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 24, 2022, to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose resident Denys Mamrak, who came to Thursday’s rally with a Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders, said the attack reminds him of the 1941 Nazi invasion of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have the same rhetoric, the same narrative, the same attitude,” he said, of Putin and his forces. “I can’t believe this is happening here and now, in the 21st century, nearly in the middle of Europe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mamrak, a Ukrainian national, said he feels betrayed by Western nations, who he contends are more interested in containing the conflict than in actually helping Ukraine defend itself. “I feel like the entire world left us alone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ukrainian officials on Friday said their forces were battling Russians on multiple fronts, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-chernobyl-russia-invasion-6f4b2da3c9623b7f1bf8f250a73a1bb5\">had lost control of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant\u003c/a>, scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"ukraine\"]“Russia has embarked on a path of evil, but Ukraine is defending itself and won’t give up its freedom,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1496787304811315202\">Zelenskyy tweeted\u003c/a>. He earlier cut diplomatic ties with Moscow and declared martial law, while pleading for international support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am devastated,” said Alex Rozovsky, a Sunnyvale resident who was born in Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city about 25 miles from Russia’s border that has been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/kharkiv-russia.html\">major early target of Russia’s forces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in contact with friends in Ukraine and also in Moscow. And these people are, you know, suffering right now,” added Rozovsky, who said he’s been glued to the TV and internet for the past 24 hours, trying to decipher fact from fiction. “But their spirit is amazing. They want to fight and they’re prepared to defend. Even if Putin occupies the country, the resistance will continue. That’s what I’m hearing. So that gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rozovsky, a retired tech worker, predicted Russia would seize Kyiv and replace the government with a puppet regime — an outcome that senior U.S. defense officials now agree is likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that President Zelenskyy can escape and maybe form a government in exile,” Rozovsky said. “That probably counts as the best scenario at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the U.S. to Western Europe and Japan, South Korea and Australia, nations lined up to denounce the Kremlin as the outbreak of fighting raised fears about the shape of Europe to come — prompting NATO to strengthen its eastern flank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, President Biden on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, saying Putin “chose this war” and that his country would bear the consequences of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Bay Democratic Congress member John Garamendi, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee and had just returned from a meeting in Europe Wednesday night with military allies, said 30 members of NATO showed support for tougher sanctions against Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi accused Putin of starting “a tragic new chapter in European history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand together holding blue and yellow Ukrainian flags and small signs in support of Ukraine.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53925_030_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators wrapped in Ukrainian flags gather in San Francisco Civic Center on Feb. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Rozovsky said the sanctions imposed don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putin only understands strength, and I don’t see enough strength from the United States and from NATO. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Lesya Hendrix, a San Francisco resident who grew up in Ukraine, joined hundreds of other demonstrators at the event. She said her grandparents and uncle’s family, who live in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, were woken up Thursday morning to the sounds of explosions and fighter jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have anywhere to go. It’s too late,” she said. “There is no gas. No means of transportation really to go at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendrix said her family’s internet service is still working, so she’s been able to remain in touch with them. “But as soon as they don’t reply for an hour, both me and my mom are just worried. Was there a bomb on their house?” she said. “Are they not answering because they’re busy or they could fall asleep for an hour. Or are they not answering because they’re not alive anymore?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than 1 million people of Ukrainian descent in the U.S., some 20,000 live in the Bay Area — concentrated primarily in San Francisco and the South Bay — according to the Ukrainian consulate in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand together behind a large sign that reads, 'Save Ukraine - Stop Putin.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53931_037_KQED_UkraineRally_02242022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of demonstrators gather in front of San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 24, 2022, to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose resident Denys Mamrak, who came to Thursday’s rally with a Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders, said the attack reminds him of the 1941 Nazi invasion of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have the same rhetoric, the same narrative, the same attitude,” he said, of Putin and his forces. “I can’t believe this is happening here and now, in the 21st century, nearly in the middle of Europe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mamrak, a Ukrainian national, said he feels betrayed by Western nations, who he contends are more interested in containing the conflict than in actually helping Ukraine defend itself. “I feel like the entire world left us alone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ukrainian officials on Friday said their forces were battling Russians on multiple fronts, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-chernobyl-russia-invasion-6f4b2da3c9623b7f1bf8f250a73a1bb5\">had lost control of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant\u003c/a>, scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Treasury Department wove a sprawling epic about global power and money on Friday in announcing new sanctions that target some of Russia’s most powerful men — including three with ties to Trump world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement included everything necessary for a first-class soap opera, from arms trafficking to organized crime to the smuggling of millions in cash in suitcases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the time has come for the United States to shine a light on what Russia is doing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe, including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine, supplying the Assad regime with material and weaponry as they bomb their own civilians, attempting to subvert Western democracies, and malicious cyber activities,” Mnuchin said. “Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government’s destabilizing activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Treasury Department \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0338\">announced new sanctions\u003c/a> against seven Russian “oligarchs” — billionaire business titans, often with close relationships to Russian President Vladimir Putin — 12 of their companies, 17 Russian government officials and two Russian companies, including its state arms exporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restrictions on their ability to use American banking, do business in the United States or have other dealings with U.S. institutions are the latest punitive measures imposed by the West in view of what it calls Russia’s pattern of aggressive conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moscow has responded in kind, including by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/05/599720203/60-u-s-diplomats-leave-russian-posts-expelled-over-skripal-poisoning-row\">ejecting an equal number of intelligence officers\u003c/a> as those kicked out by the United States and several European governments following the poisoning attack of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Treasury Department depicted a web of official, semiofficial and ostensibly nonofficial servants of Russian state aims — and people who slide along the scale:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Aluminum plunderbund \u003cstrong>Oleg Deripaska\u003c/strong>, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/24/manaforts-russia-connection-what-you-need-to-know-about-oleg-deripaska/?utm_term=.faf01d75e714\">a onetime patron of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort\u003c/a>, is a private business titan who was described by the Treasury Department on Friday as having “acted or purported to act for, or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a senior official of the” Russian government. Deripaska holds a Russian diplomatic passport, for example, and has said he represented Moscow to other countries. The Treasury Department adds this: “There are also allegations that Deripaska bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Alexander Torshin\u003c/strong>, deputy governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, is notable in that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/01/590076949/depth-of-russian-politicians-cultivation-of-nra-ties-revealed\">he has cultivated deep ties with the National Rifle Association\u003c/a> for years. He has met four NRA presidents and attended five NRA conventions in the United States, including one at which he met Donald Trump Jr. in 2016. 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So cash could have been shipped to the United States and seeded with political groups or individuals to make the money appear to be legitimate contributions, according to the CNN report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerimov’s alleged technique of purchasing of “villas” to launder his money also comports with questions that Trump opponents have asked about his business relationships with wealthy foreigners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way in which illicit money allegedly moves out of Russia is via real estate. A rich person buys property in the West — in London, New York or South Florida — without living in it. Instead, hot real estate markets in those places make it simple to resell a condo or a mansion and free up legitimate cash. In Kerimov’s case, he was allegedly using this scheme in the south of France when he was arrested in Nice last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, Donald Trump sold an estate he had purchased for around $42 million in Palm Beach, Fla., to Russian tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million. Rybolovlev then subdivided the property and began to sell it off as separate parcels, recouping some of the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., an opponent of Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/020918%20-Mnuchin%202008%20Palm%20Beach%20Trump%20Sale%20Letter.pdf\">has asked Mnuchin and the Treasury Department to provide information\u003c/a> about that sale as part of Congress’ job to “follow the money and conduct a thorough investigation into any potential money laundering or other illicit dealings” Trump may have had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his associates deny any wrongdoing or business relationships with Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The cutouts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia’s active measures against the United States ranged from the theft and release of embarrassing political emails to social media agitation on Facebook and Twitter to exploratory cyberprobes of state elections systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They involved a web of intermediaries and cutouts in the same way as the practices described by the Treasury Department sanctions. Government cyber operatives stole emails from the Democratic National Committee and other victims but used purportedly independent actors — the now-shuttered Russian-created website DCLeaks or the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, which endures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651653/mueller-brings-more-charges-against-manafort-gates\">Mueller Brings More Charges Against Manafort, Gates\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651653/mueller-brings-more-charges-against-manafort-gates\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Manafort-1180x905.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In June 2016, when Manafort, Trump Jr, and Jared Kushner met with a delegation of Russians in New York City after what emails to Trump Jr. described as an offer of help by the Russian government, none of the people they hosted were Russian government employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Trump Jr.’s emails described the desire to reach the Trump campaign that originated with a Russian official — federal prosecutor Yuri Chaika — but which traveled along a path of cutouts: Chaika talked to Donald Trump’s onetime business associate, who then spoke to his son, who then spoke to his publicist, who then contacted Trump Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort all have denied conspiring with the Russian attack on the election. 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