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City of Oleshki in Kherson Oblast occupied by Russian forces, says mayor.

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According to the Mayor of Oleshki Yevhen Ryschuk, the Russian occupiers have already replaced the Ukrainian flag with Russian on the building of the city administration. Oleshki has a population of 24,500 people.

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In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on another failed round of U.S.-Russia diplomacy over a controversial peace plan, as Moscow presses ahead on the battlefield and advances in and near Pokrovsk.

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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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