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Washington Post: Intelligence says Russian retreat from Kharkiv Oblast could be turning point in war

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Ukraine’s counteroffensive is adding pressure on Russia to reinforce personnel, U.S. and Western officials told the Washington Post on Sept. 12. Although Russia's next moves are unclear, one unnamed U.S. official said Russia's “weaknesses have been exposed and they don’t have great manpower reserves or equipment reserves.”

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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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