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Dozens of men arrived for the prayers in a show of defiance - their backs turned towards the scorched and blackened wall.

Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon sun to register herself and her child as refugees.

Around him stood scorched hills and the ruins of what was once was a village, briefly occupied by Moscow at the start of its invasion in February 2022 and then destroyed by relentless shelling.

On Thursday, crews continued recovery efforts on the scene, which was scorched by a large fire that broke out after the jet crash.

A house 7,500 feet from the bomb is scorched and slanting.