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Official: Russian oligarch Fridman wants to obtain Ukrainian citizenship.

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Lviv-born Mikhail Fridman is seeking to move his assets to Ukraine, and this is good for the economy because it increases the flow of taxes, Oleksandr Novikov, the head of Ukraine’s National Agency for Corruption Prevention, told Forbes Ukraine. Obtaining Ukrainian citizenship is possible for Russian businessmen of Ukrainian origin, he added.

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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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