A controversial Russian aid convoy has crossed the border into Ukraine, in a move described by Kiev as a "direct invasion". The first trucks in the convoy arrived in the war-torn city of Luhansk late on Friday afternoon. After Russia's foreign ministry announced that it could not wait any longer on the convoy – which had been stuck at the border for more than a week – the vehicles passed through a
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