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Zelensky: Withdrawal of Russian troops to Feb. 23 positions would be victory, for now.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a group interview with several Ukrainian journalists on April 5 that fighting for the territories of the Donbas occupied since 2014 would be too costly. "It would cost 50,000 or 60,000 of our best trained people, and the enemy would return next month," Zelensky said.

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In a Russian attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia on the morning of March 21, a father and mother of two girls were killed, and 6 people injured, including two girls aged 11 and 15, Fedorov said. The girls are daughters of the parents killed in the strike, Ukraine's State Emergency Service later said.

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