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501 National Guard servicemen killed by Russia's war.

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Oleksii Nadtochyi, operations chief of the National Guard's main directorate, said on May 11 that 1,697 of their servicemen were injured. The National Guard is a military force that is part of the Internal Affairs Ministry. Ukraine doesn’t disclose its general combat losses. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, up to 3,000 Ukrainian troops were killed, and up to 10,000 were wounded as of mid-April.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

"We do not accept this obviously unlawful solution contrary to European values," Orban said on a weekly radio show. "We are turning to the European Court of Justice."

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