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Moscow-backed Luhansk region in Ukraine to send 'liberated' grain to Russia -Tass

FILE PHOTO: Wheat is seen in a field near the southern Ukranian city of Nikolaev July 8, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Mundy/File Photo

One of two breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions backed by Moscow on Thursday said it would soon start rail shipments to Russia of grain that its troops had "liberated", Tass news agency reported.

Yuri Pronko, agricultural minister of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic, said that until now, the grain had been sent by truck in relatively small amounts.

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