MOSCOW (Reuters) - Separatists in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday denied a report that rebel commander Igor Strelkov had been wounded in fighting, the Russian state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported.
"It's not the first time such rumours appear, and they've never been confirmed. Everything is fine with Igor Strelkov," the paper quoted Fyodor Berezin, the deputy defence minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), as saying.
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