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Within 24 hours, Russia kills 7, injures 14 in Donetsk Oblast.

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According to Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, the Russian military killed three civilians in Bakhmut, two in Kurakhove, one in Mariinka, and one in Avdiivka on Aug. 11. The governor added that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, at least 723 civilians have been killed in the region, and another 1,845 have been wounded. These numbers don't include casualties in Russian-occupied Mariupol and Volnovakha.

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In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on another failed round of U.S.-Russia diplomacy over a controversial peace plan, as Moscow presses ahead on the battlefield and advances in and near Pokrovsk.

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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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