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Russia's telecom regulator bans 10 media outlets from calling Russian invasion of Ukraine 'war'.

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The media outlets will be blocked or fined up to 5 million rubles ($60,000) if they fail to comply. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has called the war against Ukraine "a special military operation."

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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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