Russian diplomats have dismissed as lies a White House allegation that Moscow's military was executing its own soldiers if they refused to carry out battlefield orders in Ukraine.
"Whoever came up with these other-worldly lies could only have been a person with an imagination far into overdrive," the Russian embassy in Washington said, in comments carried by the RIA Novosti news agency.
White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters a day earlier that the US government had information the Russian military had been executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night that Russian losses had grown significantly in the past week. These included, he said, at least a brigade worth of troops trying to advance on the eastern town of Avdiivka.
Pictures posted on social media showed at least three sites dotted with piles of rubble and the interior of one building strewn with shattered building materials and other debris.
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