MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukraine lost up to 445 soldiers in the Lugansk People s Republic (LPR) and the Kharkov region in battles with Russia s Battlegroup Zapad over the past 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Thursday."The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 445 military personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles and three vehicles in
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