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UN: 6,469 civilian casualties in Ukraine due to Russia’s war.

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According to the UN's human rights agency, as of midnight on May 1, Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has killed 3,153 civilians and wounded 3,316 since Feb. 24. The agency believes the figure could be much higher due to delays in obtaining information from the war's hot spots.

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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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