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Macron refuses to call Russian atrocities 'genocide,' says Ukraine and Russia are brotherly nations.

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French President Emmanuel Macron said: “I would be careful with such terms today because these two peoples (Russians and Ukrainians) are brothers.” Earlier, U.S. President Joe Biden used the term "genocide" for the killing of Ukrainians by the Russian military.

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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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