Vladimir Putin has signed 'accession treaties' formalising Russia’s illegal annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine, marking the largest forcible takeover of territory in Europe since the second world war.
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The signing ceremony, held in defiance of international law, took place in the Grand Kremlin Palace in the presence of the country’s political elites, and comes on the heels of Kremlin-orchestrated fake referendums in the four Ukrainian regions – Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk.

Putin annexes four regions of Ukraine in major escalation of Russia’s war ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/30/putin-russia-war-annexes-ukraine-regions

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