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It also took aim at  oligarchs such as Igor Kolomoyskiy, vocally pro-Kiev governor of Ukraine’s Dniepropetrovsk region.

Alex Ryabchyn in Dniepropetrovsk and Natasha Abbakumova in Moscow contributed to this report.

In Dniepropetrovsk, another volatile region of the Russian-speaking east, billionaire governor Igor Kolomoisky has also put his wealth to work in defense of a united Ukraine.

Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power plants and factories, for a desperate flight southward.

The Red Air Force concentrated on the sectors where the Russians evidently spotted the heaviest German concentrations�on the central front, bombing such communication centers as Bryansk, Minsk, Dniepropetrovsk, Kremenchug, Belgorod, Orel.