
Russian army says 1,351 soldiers killed in Ukraine
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The Russian army increased its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers on Friday.
The Russian army on Friday updated its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers, while saying that it had evacuated more than 400,000 civilians and condemning Western supplies of weapons to Kyiv.
At a Moscow briefing, senior military officials gave the first update on Russian deaths in weeks, adding that 3,825 soldiers had been wounded.
A senior defence ministry official, Mikhail Mizintsev, said 419,736 civilians had been evacuated to Russia from the separatist eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as the rest of Ukraine.
Of these, more than 88,000 were children, he added, while 9,000 were foreigners.
"Russia will continue to open and provide humanitarian corridors in all directions," Mizintsev said.
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A senior representative of the General Staff, Sergei Rudskoi, said: "We consider a huge mistake the supply of arms to Kyiv by Western countries.

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