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Deputy Commander of Azov Regiment: Blockade of Mariupol can be ended.

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Svyatoslav Palamar, known under his call sign Kalyna, called for the military and political leadership of Ukraine to "take decisive action." He added that neither experts nor analysts predicted that the defenders of Mariupol would be able to resist Russia's brutal attacks on the city for such a long time.

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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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