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Institute for the Study of War: Russia conducts unsuccessful operations in Donbas.

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The U.S. think tank reported on June 13 that Russian forces carried out unsuccessful assaults near the cities of Popasna, Bakhmut, Izium, and Sloviansk. Russia is also reportedly continuing to deploy unprepared volunteer and reserve units to reinforce its forces. The think tank reported that Russian forces likely “staged terrorist activity” in temporarily-occupied Melitopol and Berdiansk for “Russia Day” on June 12.

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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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