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Ukraine’s national power company said on April 25 it had cut electricity to parts of an eastern region controlled by Russian-backed separatists because they had run up large debts.

There was no immediate reaction from political leaders in Luhansk, who are caught up in a tense stand-off with Ukraine’s government – part of a wider confrontation between Moscow and Kyiv’s Western backers.

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