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The North Korean losses amount to almost 10 percent of the country’s deployment to Russia, the Biden administration said.

Several airlines have announced the suspension of flights to Russian cities, after Western experts and the US suggested the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines this week may have been caused by a Russian anti-aircraft missile.