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Retreating Russians leave their comrades' bodies behind

A Ukrainian serviceman gets a haircut in his unit position in the recently recaptured town of Lyman, Ukraine on October 3, 2022. [AP Photo]

The bodies of Russian soldiers were lying in the streets of a key eastern Ukrainian city on Tuesday, evidence of a hasty retreat that marked a new military defeat for Moscow as it struggles to hang on to areas it illegally annexed last week.

Russia's upper house of parliament rubber-stamped the annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Tuesday, following "referendums" that Ukraine and its Western allies dismissed as illegal and fraudulent.

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