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Kiev, July 4 (IANS) The Ukrainian military claimed that Russia has deployed more than 180,000 troops on two major eastern battlefronts. In an interview with the local media on Monday, Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the eastern grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said: “More than 180,000 (Russian troops have been deployed) across the area of responsibility (of the Eastern Group of Forces)... The Lyman-Kupyansk front is longer, which is why the enemy is concentrating their forces there." He also added there were “more than 120,000 enemy troops” currently on the Lyman-Kupyansk direction at the moment, reports CNN. The spokesperson called it…