BREAKING: President Vladimir Putin signs laws annexing four Ukrainian regions into Russia in defiance of international law, following sham “referendums” as Moscow loses more ground on the battlefield.
Earlier this week, both houses of the Russian parliament ratified treaties making the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions part of Russia. The formalities followed Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” in the four regions that Ukraine and the West have rejected as a sham.
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