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CNN: Quarter of Russian forces in Ukraine 'effectively inoperable.'

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CNN quoted an unnamed European official, who said that 29 Russian battalion tactical groups are out of non-operational. "Russian forces have tried to combine some of the remaining parts of the BTGs into coherent fighting units, using the remains of two or three groups to attempt to make one,” the official told CNN.

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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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