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Reporting from Rostov-on-Don, Russia
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that it had ordered all units to advance “in all directions” after Kyiv’s rejection to negotiate. [Which rejection did not happen.
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It asked Ukrainians to urge their government “to remove all heavy weaponry from urban areas immediately.” The ministry also said that Russian-backed separatist forces had captured a number of Ukrainian villages.
