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Zelensky expects final stage of war will be ‘bloodiest.'

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During a speech to Ukrainian university students on May 19, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he cannot yet call on Ukrainians to return home from abroad due to fears the final stage of the war will be "the most difficult, the bloodiest."

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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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