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Russia claims to have deported over a million Ukrainians to its territories since Feb. 24.

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183,168 of those allegedly deported to Russia are children, reads the statement posted on Russia’s Defense Ministry website on April 27. According to it, on April 26 alone, 16,480 people were deported to Russia from its occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk.

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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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