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Bodies and tanks mark path as Russia moves troops from Kyiv
Ukraine recaptured more territory around Kyiv from Russian soldiers who left shattered villages and their own abandoned tanks as they moved away from the capital, while a disputed cross-border strike in Russia complicated peace talks on Friday.
In the hamlet of Dmytrivka to the west of the capital, smoke was still rising from the wrecks of armoured vehicles and the bodies of at least eight Russian soldiers lay in the streets, Reuters correspondents saw.
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