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Kyiv forces battled a "Russian armed forces" tank column near Luhansk airport on Sept. 1, Kyiv said, in what Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko described as the latest stage of Moscow's "direct and open aggression". The battle came ahead of a key meeting between Russia and Ukraine in Minsk, the Belarus capital, later on Sept. 1. 

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