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Court issues arrest warrant for Medvedchuk.

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The leader of Ukraine’s pro-Russian Opposition Platform party and lifelong associate of Vladimir Putin, Viktor Medvedchuk had previously been detained on house arrest for charges of treason but escaped under suspicious circumstances on Feb. 28. He is believed to be in Ukraine but his whereabouts are unknown.

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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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