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Russia says retook 64% of area seized by Ukraine in Kursk

"More than 800 square kilometres (309 square miles) have been liberated, which amounts to about 64 percent of the territory initially occupied" by Ukraine, Sergei Rudskoi, first deputy head of Russia's General Staff, told the Krasnaya Zvezda military newspaper.  
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