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2023-07-03 03:19:13 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 35C681E320A15E43E3BA8B5E6F86CFA0C95F57D9B131B223619589AEF27A96AE
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Ukrainian forces aren't "on the verge of collapse" or "all been killed". Ukraine still has at least 750,000 military personnel: https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-army-best-world-compared-russia-us-military-china-1791441 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1296573/russia-ukraine-military-comparison/ They're also actively training thousands of recruits: https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/06/uk-armed-forces-on-track-to-train-37-000-ukrainian-recruits/ https://www.natomultimedia.tv/app/asset/688171 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/05/16/france-paves-way-to-training-of-ukrainian-pilots_6026868_7.html Colonel Macgregor has been making the same claim for over a year: https://twitter.com/anttiyr/status/1569424988477726722 https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1595397647703097344 https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-criticizes-fox-news-spreading-vladimir-putin-propaganda-colonel-douglas-macgregor-1745931#:~:text=%22Seven%20months%20later%20and%20the%20Ukrainian%20army%20is%20bled%20white%2C%20tens%20of%20thousands%20of%20Ukrainian%20troops%20have%20been%20killed%20or%20wounded%2C%20Ukraine%20is%20really%20on%20the%20ropes%20and%20trying%20to%20create%20the%20illusion%20that%20that%27s%20not%20the%20case%2C%22%20Macgregor%20said. https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1609831498156331008
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