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Published Dec. 19, 2020. Updated Dec. 19 2020 at 5:13 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 11, 2014 mayor of the town of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine Hennady Kernes speaks during the city council in Kharkiv. The mayor of a city in conflict-ridden eastern Ukraine who switched loyalities after fighting broke out with separatists in 2014, has died in Germany after being infected with coronavirus. "Mayor Gennady Kernes died tonight after a long illness," the Kharkiv city council said in a statement on Dec. 17, 2020.
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