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Russia ‘taken by surprise’ as Ukraine advances in the east, by Karl Ritter and Joanna Kozlowska | AP  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials on Saturday claimed major gains in a counteroffensive against Russian forces in the country’s northeast, saying Ukrainian troops had cut off vital supplies to front-line hotspot. The reports followed several days of apparent advances by Ukraine south of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, in what . . . READ MORE . . .

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