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Russian occupying forces set up military base at Melitopol Air Base, fire missiles to other cities.

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Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said on Facebook on March 23 that the city’s residents are essentially serving as living shields for the Russian military. He also said that Melitopol is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe as a result of Russian occupation.

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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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