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Fog of war leads to conflicting claims of Russian invasion progress, fatalities
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn the fog of war, there are spectacular discrepancies in core claims of Russia’s progress and in the numbers of fatalities as cited by Russian and Ukrainian authorities, an Israeli Channel 12 reporter in Odessa notes.
Russia claims to have captured the port city of Mariupol and the 150,000-strong city Melitopol; Ukraine officially denies both of these claims.
She says Russia claims to have sustained zero fatalities in the invasion to date, while Ukraine claims 3,500 Russian soldiers are dead and 200 of its people.
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