KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine has increased security in the city of Uman as Jewish pilgrims arrived there to mark a religious holiday, despite warnings not to travel to the war-torn country.
Thousands of Orthodox Jews come to Uman from Israel and elsewhere every year to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah holiday in the central Ukrainian city, one of the birthplaces of the Hasidic movement.
He said nine checkpoints have been set up around the city, some 200 kilometres south of Kyiv, to control the flow of people.
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