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392:, the number of people who indicated Ukrainian as their mother tongue decreased to 107,252 (3.82% of the country's population, 5th place after Moldovan, Romanian, Russian, and Gagauz), and the number of people who frequently speak Ukrainian decreased to 73,802 (2.63% of the country's population).
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