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Self-proclaimed governor says Kherson to become part of Russia.

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At a first meeting with the occupying pro-Russian collaborators in Kherson, Russian-installed governor Volodymyr Saldo said Kherson will “soon become part” of the Russian Federation. “We see the Russian Federation as our own country,” Saldo said, adding the new budget of the Kherson region has already been approved in Russian rubles.

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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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