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Kharkiv cuts off ‘sister’ ties with Russian cities.

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Kharkiv City Council announced on May 11 that it has unilaterally severed ties with Belgorod, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Novosibirsk. According to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov, it is impossible for Kharkiv to have relationships with those that “kill Ukrainians and destroy our Motherland.”

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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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