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Kazakhstan won't issue residency permits to Russians without Kremlin approval.

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Kazakhstan's parliament speaker Maulen Ashimbaev said on Sept. 22 that the country wouldn't deliver permanent residence permits to Russians without the Kremlin's agreement. Some Russians began leaving for Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, where Russians can enter without visas, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced partial "partial mobilization" on Sept. 21.

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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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