But the militants try to take their dead with them, and there is no way to verify the Russian claim.

I think you will conclude that no Russian claim should be accepted as true until fully verified.

A commission was thus created in the Ukrainian parliament to investigate the Russian claims.

(54 40' was then the southern boundary of the Russian claim to Alaska.)

That death toll was about double earlier Russian claims.

It remains only to settle the Austrian and Russian claims to the eastern territories.

Belying the Russian claim, the vote was conducted under oppressive security.

American intelligence says that Russian claim is untrue.

The legitimacy or illegitimacy of Russian claims is beside the point.

There was no way to verify the Russian claims of success.