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The situation in Ukraine, where tensions are rising like this, is virtually a battlefield.

Fighting has already been going on in eastern Ukraine for a fourth day.



Reporter Im Sang-beom will tell you about the local situation at the border between Poland and Ukraine.



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The prediction that Russia would invade Ukraine at this time yesterday (20th), when the Munich Security Conference of Western countries ended and the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, luckily was wrong.



But the people of Ukraine are uneasy about what will happen when.



[Yanek/Ukrainian resident: Maybe there will be a war.

It's all a political issue.

I'm not afraid.

I have to protect my family and property.]



The battlefield on the Eastern Front of Ukraine, which is reminiscent of a battlefield, is getting louder.



Pro-Russian rebels occupying the eastern Donbas region claim two civilians are killed in an attack by Ukrainian government forces.



Russian authorities say about 40,000 Donbas refugees have fled across the border to Rostov in southern Russia.



The US still said a Russian invasion was imminent and warned that it had built a massive package of Russian sanctions with its allies.



As the international community's attention is drawn to the US-Russian foreign ministers' meeting scheduled for the 23rd, tensions in the Ukrainian border area are also increasing.