Frontline Sloviansk residents share cautious hopes for 2026 amid continued Russian shelling

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(1 Jan 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Sloviansk, Ukraine - 31 December 2025 1. Market stalls destroyed after an aerial bomb hit it on 29 December 2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaliy (no last name given), 47, shoe seller at the local market: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PART OVERLAID BY SHOT3++ "Well, thank God it was Monday, at least there weren't many people around as it was a day off. Otherwise, if it had been a working day, it would have been a mass grave. The market is