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Steelworkers Help Clear Ukraine City of Separatists

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Pro-Russian insurgents have retreated from government buildings in the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.

Steel workers began citizen patrols earlier this week to help police restore order in the city. They helped vacate separatist-occupied buildings, clearing out the barricades outside the government building.

"For the first time (in weeks), I can go out shopping without fear," local resident 47-year-old Valentyna Tochilina said.

Mariupol is the second-largest city in the Donetsk region and was one of the cities overrun by pro-Russian protesters who have been in control of government buildings there for weeks.

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