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Governor: Ukrainian forces kill 12 Russian soldiers from elite Sakhalin unit.
July 24, 2022 3:41 PM
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According to Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai, Ukrainian artillery shelled positions of Russia’s OMON, a special police unit within the National Guard of Russia, near the Russia-occupied town of Lysychansk, and killed 12 of them. The unit came to Ukraine from Sakhalin Island, some 7,000 kilometers away from Luhansk Oblast.

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