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Bloomberg: Russia plans to annex fifth of Ukraine by September

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The Kremlin is moving to hold the so-called “referendums” in Russian-occupied territories in order to annex territories by September, Bloomberg reported citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. According to the sources, the attention is focused on the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and the southern territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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