INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
leaders as a neo-Nazi junta killing millions in a genocide of Russian speakers.The claims have no basis and Ukraine and its Western allies
dismiss them as a pretext to carry out an unprovoked war.Russian troops first tried to encircle the capital Kyiv
surround thousands of Russian soldiers.In a US assessment on Friday, a defence official said that Russia had made no progress in its advance
seizing towns and cities such as Kherson, and making some gains in the east.Moscow now claims 93% of the Donbas region of Luhansk is under
the control of Russian-backed separatists, with 54% of the other part of Donbas, Donetsk, in their hands
Zelensky, cautioned against the suggestion that Russia had abandoned plans to seize the rest of Ukraine
been killed and 3,825 wounded in Ukraine.The number is far lower than the number of Russian casualties cited either by Ukraine or the
US.Western officials say a seventh Russian general has been killed in action
began is now well into the thousands, with 10 million people displaced within Ukraine and beyond its borders.So far the UN has only
confirmed 1,081 civilian deaths in Ukraine but the true number is far higher with 300 deaths reported in the attack on a theatre in Mariupol
alone.More than 3.7 million people have fled abroad, including 2.2 million to Poland
Russia says more than 400,000 have fled there too.Source: BBC-Agencies
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