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Added on the 04/01/2023 13:27:55 - Copyright : AFP EN
At a historic military cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Valeriy Pushko lights up two cigarettes. One is for himself, the other for his son whose portrait is fixed to a cross planted in the ground.
The Russian defence ministry said the main reason for the Ukraine attack was the prohibited use of mobile phones by the troops.
A forced pullout from Kherson, the only provincial capital Moscow captured after invading Ukraine in February, would mark one of Russia’s worst war setbacks.
Kyiv, which says it is acting according to international law, accuses Moscow of ignoring repeated offers for the dead Russian troops to be returned.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.