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Governor: Russian forces shell Sumy Oblast over 80 times on Aug. 23

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Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi said that Russian forces attacked the communities of Esman, Myropillia, Krasnopillia, and Velyka Pysarivka with mortar and artillery shelling.No casualties have been reported at this 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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