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Ukraine says diplomacy has stopped a bid by Russia to send a "huge convoy" across the border disguised as a humanitarian mission. Rebels and Ukrainian troops have clashed again near Luhansk.  

Ukraine and the US claimed late on Friday that Russia had tried to send troops via a "humanitarian corridor" to intervene in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces remain locked in deadly battle.

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