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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation incorporating four Ukrainian regions into Russia on Wednesday. The move effectively completes Russia’s annexation of the regions in violation of international law.
Both houses of the Russian parliament have also ratified the treaties incorporating Ukrainian territories into Russia. Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are among the four regions.
The move by the Russian parliament and Vladimir Putin came after Kremlin-backed “referendums” in the regions were deemed illegitimate by Ukraine and the West.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier today that Kyiv’s military had made significant and rapid advances against Moscow’s forces in the previous week. Ukraine has reclaimed dozens of towns in the south and east that Russia had annexed.
“This week alone, since the Russian pseudo-referendum, dozens of population centres have been liberated. These are in Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions all together,” Zelensky said.
Russian forces in the Donetsk and Kherson regions have been forced to retreat and are fighting a Ukrainian army that is increasingly Western-equipped.
“In some areas of the front line it was possible to extend the area we hold from between 10 to 20 km,” the southern Operational Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) said on Wednesday.
Source:HT
