Russia said Sunday it had carried out a devastating "retaliatory strike" in eastern Ukraine to avenge a recent deadly attack on its troops, a claim quickly denied by Kyiv.

"More than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were killed" by a missile strike on troops stationed in two buildings used as barracks in Kramatorsk, said a Russian defense ministry

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Russian families on Sunday buried servicemen killed in a Ukrainian New Year's strike on soldiers in the eastern town of Makiivka.At least 9 men were laid to rest in the central region of Samara on the Volga River on Saturday and Sunday, regional authorities said.Since President Vladimir Putin sent out soldiers to Ukraine on February 24 in 2015, Russian

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Moscow claimed on Sunday its army conducted a deadly "retaliatory strike" in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk to avenge the deaths of 89 Russian troops killed in Makiivka.

"More than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were killed" as a result of a strike on Kyiv troops stationed in two buildings in Kramatorsk used as barracks, the Russian defense

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Russian President Vladimir Putin stood alone at a midnight service at a Kremlin church as he marked Orthodox Christmas darkened by Moscow's attack on Ukraine.Putin went to the service at the Cathedral of the Annunciation, originally developed as a church for the Russian tsars.He stood alone as Orthodox priests in golden bathrobes performed a ceremony

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Ukrainians and Russians on Saturday marked Orthodox Christmas under the shadow of war, as fighting continued despite Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally buying his forces to stop briefly attacks.Despite Putin's ceasefire order, war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine saw no considerable let-up in the combating as AFP reporters in the town of

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Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's 7 children ended up being the beneficiaries of 10 offshore trusts holding properties worth billions of dollars soon before he was struck with sanctions, Britain's Guardian paper reported Friday.They obtained the useful ownership of the secretive trusts with possessions of at least $4 billion in early February 2022,

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