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RUSSIA claimed it killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers in a single massive rocket strike in revenge for a deadly attack on Putin's forces. Moscow said it had blasted two buildings temporarily housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in the country's eastern region Donetsk on Sunday.Russia's defence ministry claimed more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the city of Kramatorsk in what it branded a "retaliatory strike". But Ukraine has dismissed Moscow's claim. Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army, told the BBC: "This is another piece of Russian propaganda." Kramatorsk's mayor earlier said there had been no casualties. Russia's defence...