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Russian officials announced on April 25 they were supplying electricity to separatist-held areas in Luhansk one day after Ukraine said it was cutting off the supply in response to unpaid bills.

“Cutting the power supply to the Luhansk region is yet another step by Ukraine to push those territories away,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow.

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